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100 Mark - Röthenbach C. Conradty
| Issuer | C. Conradty, Röthenbach an der Pegnitz |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Pressed coal dust (Kohlepressung) |
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| Obverse lettering | C·CONRADTY·RÖTHENBACH ✳NR✳ 1020 100 MARK ✣ ✳NOTGELD✳✳✳1922✳ |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold, multi-line inscription occupying the entire central field, reading 'ALLEN GEWALTEN ZVM TRVTZ SICH ERHALTEN', a quotation adapted from Goethe's poem 'Feige Gedanken', rendered in capital Latin letters in an archaic orthographic style with 'V' used in place of 'U'. Three asterisk ornaments are symmetrically placed between and below the lines of text. The flat, unadorned field and the use of archaic lettering are consistent with the utilitarian pressed-coal Notgeld issues of the early 1920s Weimar hyperinflation era. |
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C. Conradty was a major manufacturer of carbon and graphite products — pencil leads, electrodes, arc lamp carbons — operating out of Röthenbach an der Pegnitz near Nuremberg. In 1922, as Weimar Germany's inflation began consuming the paper mark, private firms increasingly issued their own emergency money, Notgeld, to keep workers paid and local commerce moving. Conradty's solution was characteristically industrial: tokens pressed from coal dust, the same raw material the factory processed daily. The choice was pragmatic rather than symbolic — the firm had the material and the pressing equipment on hand.