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100 Mark Reichsbanknote, red seals
| Issuer | Reichsbank |
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| Year | 1908-1910 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central pane bears two allegorical female busts in intaglio — Mercury (left, winged helmet) and Ceres (right, grain wreath) — flanking the large denomination inscription "Ein Hundert Mark" in ornate Gothic blackletter script, set against a radiating guilloche underprint with Imperial crown and eagle motifs. Two circular red letterpress seals of the Reichsbankdirektorium, each bearing the Imperial eagle, are positioned centrally below the text block, accompanied by facsimile signatures. The left panel is reserved for the watermark zone, with the note number printed vertically in red on both outer margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | Reichsbanknote. Ein Hundert Mark zahlt die Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin ohne Legitimations- prüfung dem Einlieferer dieser Banknote. 100 100 Berlin, den 10. September 1909. Reichsbankdirektorium HUNDERT 100 HUNDERT Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nach- gemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft. (Translation: Reichsbank note. One hundred marks the Reichsbankhauptkasse in Berlin will pay the holder of this banknote without any legitimation check. 100 100 Berlin, September 10, 1909. Reichsbank Board of Directors ONE HUNDRED ONE HUNDRED Anyone who counterfeits or forges banknotes, or procures counterfeit or forged banknotes and puts them into circulation, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two years.) |
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The 1908–1910 series of 100 Mark notes represented the Reichsbank's effort to standardize and modernize its large-denomination paper following a decade of incremental design revisions. Reichsdruckerei had by this point developed considerable in-house engraving capacity, reducing German reliance on foreign security printers — a point of some institutional pride in Berlin. The red seal distinguishes this series from the later 1910-dated issues with black seals, a detail that catches out inattentive collectors more often than it should.
These circulated heavily through the final years of Wilhelmine prosperity and into the early war economy. Notes from this series that survived past 1918 were typically worn to rags.