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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goch (City of Goch) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld printed in black and red on watermarked paper. The upper register is divided into three sections: at left, a circular guilloche medallion bearing the numeral '10' with 'Pfennig' inscribed around the circumference; at centre, a detailed letterpress vignette of the Goch Rathaus (town hall) captioned 'Rathaus'; at right, the municipal heraldic shield of Goch set within an ornamental roundel with the legend 'Gorchenas Sigillum'. The issuer's name 'Stadt Goch' appears in blackletter script flanking the central vignette. The lower panel contains the redemption text, issue date 'Goch, d. 1.1.1921', series designation 'Serie A' in red, a printed serial number in red, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Protection description | S-S-Muster pattern (Schleicher & Schüll house watermark) |
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Goch is a small town in the Lower Rhine district, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank had effectively lost control of fractional coinage circulation, forcing local authorities, businesses, and institutions to fill the gap themselves.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll, best known as a paper manufacturer in Düren, produced notes for numerous Notgeld issuers across the Rhineland. The watermark security feature is a modest but deliberate touch for what was essentially temporary municipal scrip.