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5 000 000 Mark Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba
| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Mark (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a central arched vignette of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery complex, with headframes, industrial buildings, and smokestacks rendered in fine engraved detail. The issuer inscription "Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven" runs along the upper border, while the denomination "Fünf Millionen Mark" is set in large Gothic script below the vignette, flanked by guilloche ovals bearing the numeral "5.000.000". The date "31. August 1923" and two facsimile signatures appear at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Signature(s) | Kever and Kesten |
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Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba was a coal mining company in Hückelhoven, in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German industrial enterprises in 1923 it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to pay workers when the Reichsbank could not supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. Five million marks was a serious sum in early 1923; by November it would have been worthless before the ink dried.
Hermann Schött A.G. in Rheydt handled the printing, a regional commercial press rather than a specialist banknote printer — consistent with the improvised nature of industrial Notgeld generally.