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100 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Heidelberg (City of Heidelberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Einhundert Mark zahlt die Stadtgemeinde Heidelberg dem Einlieferer dieses Scheins HEIDELBERG, DEN 28. SEPTEMBER 1922 NUR MIT TROCKENSTEMPEL GÜLTIG DER OBERBÜRGERMEISTER: Serie A NACH ERFOLGTEM AUFRUF IN DEN HEIDELBERGER TAGESZEITUNGEN VERLIERT DIESER SCHEIN SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT *DIE/EINLÖSUNG/ERFOLGT* AUSSER/BEI/DEN HIESIGEN/BANKEN *STÄDT/KASSEN/BEI/SÄMTLICHEN* |
| Reverse description | Cream paper with an olive geometric lattice underprint covering the entire field. A central rectangular vignette reproduces a woodcut view of Heidelberg castle and town as seen from the Heiligenberg, taken from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia of 1550, with the Baden bear arms at upper right of the vignette. Denomination "100" flanked by "MARK" appears in bold letterpress on both left and right panels. |
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Heidelberg's municipal administration, like hundreds of German city and district governments, turned to locally-issued Notgeld in the early 1920s as the Reichsmark's purchasing power collapsed faster than the Reichsbank could supply notes. This 100 Mark denomination sits in the middle phase of that crisis — after the small-change Notgeld of 1918–1921 but before the truly astronomical inflation figures of late 1923 rendered such amounts meaningless within weeks of issue.
The dry embossed seal was the Stadtgemeinde's primary authentication device, a practical choice for a municipal printer without access to intaglio or specialist security printing. Forgery of local inflation notes was nonetheless rare — the economic window in which any given denomination held useful value was simply too short to make counterfeiting worthwhile.