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100 Mark - Westfalen Freiherr vom Stein
| Issuer | Province of Westphalia |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#645.1, Men18#33512.6 |
| Obverse description | A rampant horse — the heraldic symbol of Westphalia — occupies the central field, rendered in high relief and facing right with forelegs raised. The denomination '100 Mark' is inscribed in Fraktur blackletter script beneath the horse in the lower field. A circular legend in Fraktur characters runs along the periphery, reading 'Notgeld der Provinz Westfalen,' with the date '1922' appearing at the base, flanked by small decorative stops. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (Fraktur blackletter) |
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Issued by the Province of Westphalia during the acute inflationary crisis of 1922, this is one of hundreds of Notgeld pieces authorized by German regional and municipal authorities after the central government lost effective control of the money supply. The Reichsbank's inability to produce sufficient small-denomination coinage drove provinces and towns to issue their own emergency currency — tombac, a copper-zinc alloy more typically used for cartridge cases, was a practical wartime-surplus solution.
Freiherr vom Stein, the Prussian reformer after whom this piece is named, was himself a Westphalian native, born at Nassau an der Lahn in 1757.