This banknote was issued by the Reichsbankdirektion in Berlin. It measures around 12 cm * 8 cm. The banknote is a very good example for the inflation money in Germany.

Front side
The front side of the note shows the “German mint master Jörg Herz” - after a painting from G. Penz.
History of the banknote
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This imperial 1000 Mark banknote was issued by the Reichsbankdirektion in Berlin. It measures around 18.5 cm * 11 cm. This large bill would hardly fit into any of today’s wallets. Because of its colour the banknote is also referred to as the “Brown Thousand”.

This banknote was issued with several issue dates:

10. April 1896
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This imperial 100 Mark banknote was issued by the Reichsbankdirektion in Berlin. The banknote is full of pictures with allegorical symbolic. It measures around 20.5 cm * 10 cm. Due to this super-size format the bill was also called the “long hundred”.
This banknote was given out with several issue dates:

7. February 1908
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This banknote had been issued in various version in the imperial Germany since the late 19th century. But the banknote with the issue year 1908 has a special history.
There are 3 versions of it. I will use the reference in the Rosenberg catalog to differentiate between them.
Rosenberg 33a

This version can be identified by the underprint […]