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100 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Crimmitschau (City of Crimmitschau) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre ground with a bold black outer border framing the entire note. To the left, the municipal coat of arms of Crimmitschau — a red-and-white heraldic shield with twin battlemented towers — is set within a dotted inner border. The denomination numeral '100' appears in large black letterpress to the upper left, while the title 'Notgeld / Hundert Mark' is rendered in an expressive red and black Fraktur script across the upper right. The right panel carries the validity text, issuing authority line, and a hand-signed authorization, with the serial number printed in black at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld Hundert Mark gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Crimmitschau bis 30. November 1922 Für dieses Notgeld sind Sicherheiten bei der Reichsbank hinterlegt. Der Rat der Stadt Crimmitschau i. V. Nr. |
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Crimmitschau was a textile mill town in the Erzgebirge foothills, and its 1903 weavers' strike — one of the longest industrial actions in German imperial history — had left a particular political edge to the city's labor relations. By 1922, that same workforce was living through hyperinflation severe enough that municipalities across Saxony were printing their own Notgeld simply to make payroll. This note is part of that wave of emergency municipal issues, not a commemorative or collector piece.
Local printing was typical for Saxony's smaller Notgeld issues of this period, keeping turnaround fast when the Reichsbank's notes lost purchasing power faster than new denominations could be authorized.