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1 Mark Hotel zum Amtsgericht
| Issuer | Hotel zum Amtsgericht, Gronau (Westfalen) |
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| Size | 88 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 MARK DIESER GUTSCHEIN HAT NOCH GÜLTIGKEIT HOTEL ZUM AMTSGERICHT GRONAU GUT ATTEN LEIDEN UND VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH BEKANNTMACHUNG SAMONSAM GONZ BATT JETZ AN FR. WILH. RUHFUS DORTMUND |
| Reverse description | Blue, yellow-ochre, and rust-red letterpress design on cream paper, with a central diamond-shaped vignette in blue and black illustrating a silhouetted street scene: a horse-drawn carriage at centre, a stooped figure with a sack at left, and a top-hatted gentleman at right, all set against a blue building facade inscribed 'GEFÄNGNIS' at top. Rust-red silhouettes of cattle, a pig, a huntsman, and a woodsman occupy the four corner areas. Broad banner scrolls at top and bottom carry the issuer's name in large display lettering. |
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Hotel zum Amtsgericht — "Hotel at the Court of Justice" — was one of thousands of German commercial establishments that issued their own emergency small-change notes during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1914–1923, when metal coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight at the outbreak of war. A hotel issuing scrip redeemable presumably only on its own premises, or locally in Gronau, was under no central banking obligation; these notes lived and died by the reputation of the business behind them.
Fr. Wilh. Ruhfus of Dortmund was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling commissions from dozens of municipalities and private issuers across Westphalia.