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100 Mark
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Stralsund (City Treasury of Stralsund) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Green multicolour note centred on a detailed historical vignette of the 1628 siege of Stralsund, showing Wallenstein's emissaries confronting defiant Stralsund citizens before a panoramic view of the city's skyline with church spires. Two banner-draped staffs bearing the date "30.6.1628" flank the scene. The city seal in brown is placed at the bottom centre. Shield-shaped cartouches bearing the denomination "100 Mark" occupy the left and right fields, each flanked by rendered cannon, cannonballs and chains. Quotation texts in Gothic script run along the upper left and upper right margins. The artist's signature "F. Rackow" appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Stralsund Wallenstein vor Stralsund 1628 100 Mark (left and right) 30.6.1628 (left and right of central vignette) Left side: Die Stadt muß herunter und wäre sie auch mit Ketten an den Himmel gebunden. Right side: Ergeben? Dat don wi nich. Geld? Dat hebben wi nich. Schurken, Rebellen? Dat sind wi nich. (Translation: Stralsund / Wallenstein before Stralsund 1628 / 100 Mark (left and right) / 30.6.1628 (left and right of central vignette) / Left side: The city must fall, even if it were bound to the heavens with chains. / Right side: Surrender? That we will not do. Money? That we do not have. Scoundrels, rebels? That we are not.) |
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Stralsund's Stadthauptkasse issued this note during the acute inflationary spiral of 1922, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany were flooding the market with Notgeld to compensate for chronic coin and small-denomination banknote shortages. By mid-1922 the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of local money supply, and city treasuries like Stralsund's were printing scrip not as a curiosity but out of administrative necessity.
F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig — better known as an encyclopaedia publisher than a security printer — handled a notable volume of provincial Notgeld work during this period. Designer F. Rackow is associated with several Pomeranian civic issues from the same years, though documentation on individual attribution remains scattered.