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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goch (City of Goch) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three horizontal registers. The upper register contains two dark cartouches at left and right bearing the Gothic-script legends 'Stadt' and 'Goch' respectively, flanking a central intaglio vignette of the Rathaus (town hall), labelled above. To the left is a circular guilloche medallion with the numeral '50' and the inscription 'Pfennig' repeated around the inner ring; to the right, a matching circular vignette carries the Goch municipal coat of arms with the legend 'Gochenis Sigilum' in Gothic script. The lower register, set on a purple-tinted ground, carries the redemption text in German blackletter, the series designation 'Serie B', the place and date 'Goch, d. 1. 6. 1921', a red serial number, and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature to the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Haus "Zu den fünf Ringen" Steintor 50 Pfennig Schleicher & Schuell Duren |
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Goch is a small town in the Lower Rhine district of North Rhine-Westphalia, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1922 — a period when the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage forced hundreds of towns to print their own emergency fractional currency. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren were one of the more prolific commercial printers servicing these municipal contracts, handling output for dozens of Rhenish towns simultaneously.
The sheer volume of Notgeld printed by this firm means paper quality and ink consistency vary noticeably across surviving examples from the same issuing run.