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100 000 Marks Burscheid
| Issuer | Bergfeld & Heider, Bergische Röhrenfabrik G.m.b.H., Burscheid |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 7/8#696 |
| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a typeset letterpress design enclosed within a decorative border of repeating ornamental units. The denomination "100000 Mark" is set in bold black Fraktur type at the top centre, followed by the guarantee clause "Gut für Einhunderttausend Mark" in large Gothic script with flanking foliate vignettes. Below, the place and date of issue "Burscheid, August 1923" appear in Fraktur, with the instruction "(Firmenstempel und Unterschrift.)" printed to the right. A circular violet official stamp of the Stadtskasse Burscheid bearing a Prussian eagle is applied at lower left, accompanied by the printed rubber-stamp legend and a manuscript signature of the issuing firm. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left entirely blank on plain cream paper stock, with show-through of the obverse letterpress text faintly visible. No design elements, inscriptions, or security devices are present. |
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Bergfeld & Heider's Bergische Röhrenfabrik was a pipe and tube manufacturing firm in Burscheid, a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land east of Cologne. Like hundreds of German private firms in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to pay workers when the Reichsbank could not supply sufficient physical notes fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. This was not a bank note in any conventional sense; it was a wage instrument, printed to cover a specific payroll shortfall and redeemable only locally.
The DeNG reference places this squarely in the private industrial Notgeld category, distinct from municipal issues. Survival rates for factory-issued pieces are generally lower than for town issues — fewer were printed, and fewer were preserved by collectors at the time of issue.