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1 Gold-Mark Gas- und Wasserwerk
| Issuer | Städtisches Gas- und Wasserwerk Monschau |
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| Size | 115 × 73 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress-printed Gutschein on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative border of small diamond and dot ornaments. A heraldic lion vignette appears at upper centre-left beside the large heading GUTSCHEIN, with the denomination 1 Gold-Mark set in bold display type at centre. A vertical panel at left, rotated 90 degrees, carries the validity clause in smaller type, and the issuer imprint Städt. Gas- u. Wasserwerk Monschau appears above the printed serial number at lower centre, with the printer's imprint Druck von Jac. Weiss, Montjoie at the foot. |
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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 |
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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.