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100 Mark
| Issuer | Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt, Bezirksverband |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set on cream paper with a large central guilloche rosette underprint in pale blue-grey, over which the denomination "Einhundert" is rendered in bold Gothic blackletter script with "Mark" below in a similarly large typeface. A text panel in the centre states the redemption obligation of the Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt, dated 20. Oktober 1922, with the issuing authority named in Gothic script below. A right-hand stub panel carries the red serial number and the series designation "SERIE IV", while a vertical warning text in small type runs along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large, centrally placed oval guilloche vignette composed of intricate interlocking lace-like rosette patterns in pale blue-grey, occupying nearly the full height of the note and printed by letterpress. The field surrounding the oval is plain cream paper, with the printer's imprint "JOHANNES PÄSSLER / DRESDEN-N." in small type at the lower right. The obverse text shows through faintly as a see-through effect. |
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Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Neustadt was one of the administrative districts ringing the city of Dresden proper, and like hundreds of similar German local authorities in 1922, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address a catastrophic shortage of Reichsbank notes that simply could not keep pace with accelerating inflation. By mid-1922, the Reichsbank's printing capacity was overwhelmed, and district-level bodies were legally permitted, then practically forced, to fill the gap themselves.
Johannes Pässler was a local Dresden-Neustadt printer, not a specialist security printer. The guilloche underprint offered a basic deterrent to forgery, though at this inflationary pace, counterfeiting a 100 Mark note was barely worth the effort.