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100 Mark Säckingen

Issuer Stadt Säckingen (City of Säckingen)
Year 1922
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Size 115 x 80 mm
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Reverse lettering Einhundert Mark
Der Abschied.
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Protection description Birnenquadrate (pear-square pattern watermark)
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Säckingen's 1922 notgeld issue came at the peak of Germany's hyperinflationary spiral, when municipalities across the country were authorized to print emergency currency to relieve chronic coin shortages. Local printing — by Gustav Meba, a Säckingen firm — was common for these issues, keeping production costs down and turnaround fast. The watermarked paper was an attempt at minimal security for a note everyone understood would be short-lived.

The 100 Mark denomination places this squarely in the transitional phase: a sum that felt substantial in 1921 was approaching worthlessness by late 1922.

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