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100 000 Mark Weinsberg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Weinsberg |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 000 Mark (100 000) |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Scheine werden von der Stadtpflege zum Nennwert in Zahlung genommen und spätestens am 15. Januar 1924 eingelöst. Durch treue Weiber, Wein und Sang — Hat Weinsberg seinen guten Klang. |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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Weinsberg is a small town in Württemberg best known, if at all, for the 1140 siege in which Countess Uta allegedly saved the male inhabitants by carrying them out on her back — the "Weibertreu" story. Whether the town treasury intended the irony is unknown, but by 1923 it was the municipal government itself doing the carrying, issuing emergency currency because the Reichsbank's own notes were depreciating faster than they could be printed.
At 100,000 Mark, this note dates from the mid-inflation period before the truly astronomical denominations arrived in autumn 1923. Württemberg municipal notgeld of this class was often printed on watermarked stock sourced from regional paper mills, giving individual issues a paper quality that outlasted their monetary value by about a century.