Catalog
1 Gold-Mark Gas- und Wasserwerk
| Issuer | Städtisches Gas- und Wasserwerk Monschau |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN zur Lieferung von Gas, Elektrizität u. Wasser im Werte von 1 Gold-Mark Dieser Gutschein wird bei der monatlichen Rechnungserteilung zu oben angegebenem Wert in Zahlung genommen. Städt. Gas- u. Wasserwerk Monschau. Gültig im Bereich der Stadt Monschau bis auf Widerruf. DRUCK VON JAC. WEISS, MONTJOIE |
| Reverse description | The reverse shows the obverse design in mirror image as a light show-through of the letterpress printing, confirming the single-sided printing of this Gutschein; the plain cream paper stock carries no independent reverse design or inscription. |
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Monschau — known officially as Montjoie until 1918, when the town's French-derived name was quietly dropped in the nationalist reshaping of German geography after World War I — was a textile manufacturing town in the Eifel region near the Belgian border. This note was issued not by a municipal treasury or savings institution but by the town's combined gas and water utility, a common enough arrangement in smaller German municipalities during the Notgeld period, when any entity with local credibility and a printing contact could fill the void left by coin shortages.
The printer, Jac. Weiss, was a local Monschau firm — the "Montjoie" imprint dates the printing to before the 1918 renaming.