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| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed panoramic view of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery at Hückelhoven, with pit headframes, industrial buildings, and workers' housing rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination '2.000.000' appears in oval cartouches at upper left and right, with the large Gothic-script legend 'Zwei Millionen Mark' in the lower register. The header bears 'G·u·t·s·c·h·e·i·n' and 'Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven', while the lower text panel carries the redemption conditions, date, serial number, and two manuscript signatures above an embossed colliery seal. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette consists of a large diamond-shaped guilloche underprint enclosing a full-length figure of a miner in work dress, wearing a Schachtmütze and shouldering a mining tool, set against a background view of the colliery with workers in the foreground. Flanking oval cartouches carry, at left, the interlaced monogram 'SJ' and, at right, the crossed hammer-and-pick mining emblem, both within decorative borders. The issuer's name 'GEWERKSCHAFT SOPHIA-JACOBA, HÜCKELHOVEN' is printed in capitals along the top and bottom margins, with the printer's imprint 'SCHÖTT A.G. RHEYDT' at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | GEWERKSCHAFT SOPHIA-JACOBA, HÜCKELHOVEN SCHÖTT A.G. RHEYDT |
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