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100 000 Mark - Unna
| Issuer | Unna (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic, expressionist figure of a male farmer or sower is depicted in high relief at center, rendered in a vigorous, striding pose and leaning forward with a long-handled tool or staff grasped in both hands, suggestive of agricultural labor. The background field is decorated with sweeping curved lines evoking stylized foliage or wind. The date '1923' is inscribed in the lower exergue, flanked by decorative dot-and-colon stops, resting on a flat ground line beneath the figure. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1923 |
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Unna's 100,000 Mark aluminum notgeld was struck during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1923, when the Reichsmark's collapse was moving faster than municipal printing presses could respond. Aluminum was chosen not for its numismatic qualities but because the metal's low intrinsic value meant it wouldn't be hoarded for melt — a practical concern that plagued copper and brass emergency issues of the same period.
By the time most notgeld of this denomination reached circulation, the face value was already economically meaningless.