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100 Mark
| Issuer | Stadthauptkasse Pößneck (City of Pößneck, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on brown paper in dark ink, the obverse is divided into a left column and a main text field. The left column carries two vignettes: the upper one shows the municipal coat of arms of Pößneck with a lion and quartered shield, while the lower one presents a townscape with a church steeple, flanked by the large green numeral '100'. The main field bears the denomination in Gothic script, a bearer clause naming the Stadthauptkasse zu Pößneck i. Thür., a validity notice expiring 15 December 1922, the issue date of 13 September 1922, and two manuscript signatures below the printed designations 'Der Magistrat' and 'Der Gemeinderat', with a small civic seal at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN Einhundert Mark zahlt die Stadthauptkasse zu Pößneck i. Thür. dem Überbringer dieses Gutscheines. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit als Zahlungsmittel am 15. Dezember 1922 oder vorher zwei Wochen nach Bekanntmachung. Pößneck, den 13. September 1922 Der Magistrat Der Gemeinderat |
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Pößneck is a small textile-industry town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1922, its city treasury — the Stadthauptkasse — was forced to issue emergency notes as the Reichsbank failed to supply adequate small-denomination currency during the accelerating inflation. These Notgeld issues were authorized locally and backed by nothing more than the issuing municipality's word, which by mid-1922 was already a precarious guarantee.
The Müller catalog reference places this in the main 1922 Pößneck series. The "b" suffix indicates a distinct paper or print variant from the base type — worth checking the watermark or reverse printing against the "a" before cataloging.