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50 000 000 Mark Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba
| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba, Hückelhoven |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | Merkelb 3#56-64 |
| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on cream paper, the obverse carries a central semi-circular vignette of the Sophia-Jacoba coal mine complex in Hückelhoven, with headframes, industrial buildings and workers' housing rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination "50.000.000" appears in oval cartouches at upper left and right, while the value in words "Fünfzig Millionen Mark" is set in bold Gothic script across the centre. Below, a redemption text in German script typeface, a circular embossed issuer's seal at lower left, and two manuscript signatures alongside a printed serial number and letter suffix complete the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | GEWERKSCHAFT SOPHIA-JACOBA, HÜCKELHOVEN SCHÖTT A.G. RHEYDT |
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Gewerkschaft Sophia-Jacoba was a coal mining cooperative operating the Sophia-Jacoba colliery in the lower Rhine coalfield. Like hundreds of German industrial firms in the autumn of 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to pay workers when the Reichsbank could no longer supply denominations fast enough to keep pace with hyperinflation. By the time fifty-million-mark notes were necessary for routine wage packets, the currency was collapsing by the hour.
Hermann Schött A.G. in Rheydt handled a considerable volume of corporate Notgeld printing for Rhineland issuers during this period. The Merkelbach reference range 56–64 suggests this note belongs to a numbered series of nine consecutive issues, all from the same frantic weeks of late 1923 before the Rentenmark stabilization ended the need entirely.