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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goch (City of Goch) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Johannes Arndt Druckerei, Jena, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Steintor (Stone Gate), the historic medieval town gate of Goch, rendered in warm red-brick tones with three crenellated towers. Flanking the gate on either side are heraldic lion shields in blue and white, with the denomination '50 PF' lettered in bold at the lower left and right corners. Validity text and issuance details appear in the left and right panels, with the printer's imprint 'Johannes Arndt Druckerei Jena' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | A colourful genre scene set along the Dutch-German border: a smuggler crouches furtively into dense green shrubbery at left, his bundle visible on his back, while a uniformed Dutch customs officer stands watch beside a large tree at right. A red-and-white striped border post bearing the sign 'Rijksrechten' marks the boundary in the middle ground. The denomination '50' appears in red numerals at the lower left and right corners, with the rhyming verse inscribed in the lower panel. |
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Goch is a small town on the Lower Rhine, close to the Dutch border, and its 1922 notgeld issue belongs to the chaotic middle period of Weimar-era emergency money — after the immediate postwar coin shortages but before hyperinflation made small-denomination paper essentially worthless by late 1923. Johannes Arndt in Jena was a prolific notgeld printer, supplying municipalities across Germany that lacked access to larger commercial printers.
The DeNG reference suffix "-2/6" indicates this is the second of six known variants in the 445.3a grouping — likely distinguished by serial number range or minor typographic differences rather than design changes.