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100 Mark - Westfalen Annette v. Droste-Hülshoff
| Issuer | Province of Westphalia |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Thickness | 2.4 mm |
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| Obverse description | A rearing Westphalian horse facing right dominates the central field, rendered in bold relief. The denomination '100 Mark' is inscribed in Fraktur blackletter below the horse's forelegs, occupying the lower left field. The date '1923' appears in the lower exergual area, flanked by small lozenge stops. The circular legend 'Notgeld der Provinz Westfalen' runs along the periphery in Fraktur blackletter, framing the entire composition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Westphalia's 1923 notgeld issue honored Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, the 19th-century poet born near Münster, at a moment when the Reichsmark had become functionally worthless. Provincial and municipal authorities across Germany were printing and striking emergency money not as commemoration but out of necessity — the central government had lost control of the currency entirely by mid-1923, with inflation doubling prices every few days. Aluminum was the practical choice: cheap, available, and irrelevant to speculators hoarding metal.
Droste-Hülshoff had died in 1848. Her face would later appear on the West German 20-Mark banknote issued in 1961.