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100 Reichsmark Reichsbanknote
| Issuer | Reichsbank |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Currency | Reichsmark (1924-1948) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of the chemist Justus von Liebig positioned at right, with the serial number printed in red at upper left. A swastika guilloche underprint occupies the centre of the note, integrated into the fine-line intaglio background pattern typical of Reichsbank issues of this period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central intaglio vignette of two allegorical figures — a male figure to the left and a female figure to the right — flanking a circular medallion bearing a portrait bust in profile, all rendered in fine engraved steelwork in blue-grey tones. The denomination numerals "100" appear in each upper corner, with the inscription "Reichsmark" arching across the top and "Reichsbanknote" along the bottom of the central vignette. The serial number is repeated in red letterpress at both the top and bottom right of the note. |
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The Reichsbank's 1935 100 Reichsmark series was issued under the fiscal machinery of the Nazi rearmament economy — a period when the Reichsbank was financing military expansion through Mefo bills and other instruments deliberately kept off the official balance sheet. Hjalmar Schacht, then both Reichsbank President and Economics Minister, signed the authorizing instruments for this series before his eventual break with Hitler over deficit financing in 1939.
The Reichsdruckerei had been Berlin's central state printing house since 1879, and by the mid-1930s was producing notes under increasingly centralized political oversight. Watermark security on this series is relatively straightforward by contemporary standards — no metallic strip, no UV features.