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100 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Gotha (City Council of Gotha, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Gotha Ein Hundert Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung und von der Bank für Thüringen vorm. B. M. Strupp Akt.-Ges. Filiale Gotha zur Gutschrift angenommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 14 Tagen nach öffentlicher Aufforderung des Stadtrats zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Gotha, den 30. September 1922. Der Stadtrat Oberbürgermeister. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Gotha's municipal emergency currency from 1922 sits in the dense middle period of German Notgeld inflation issues, when local authorities were printing money not as a novelty but out of necessity — Reichsbank notes were being hoarded faster than they could be distributed. The Stadtrat had both practical motivation and, notably, geography on its side: Gotha was home to Justus Perthes Verlag and had a strong local printing tradition, which gave many Thuringian municipal issues a production quality that outpaced comparable Notgeld from less print-capable towns.
The watermarked paper is the detail worth noting here — relatively few Stadtrat Gotha issues at this denomination bother with it.