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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Geldern (City of Geldern) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Geldern Geldern, den 4. November 1921 der Bürgermeister Die Städtische Sparkasse in Geldern zahle gegen diese Anweisung zu Lasten des Ersatzgeldkontos der Stadtgemeinde 75 Pfennig 75 DRACHENGELD Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce, Künstlerdruck, Glauchau (Sachs.) |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Weeners |
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Geldern, a small Rhineland town with medieval roots as a ducal capital, issued this 75 Pfennig Notgeld note in 1921 during the period of acute coin shortages that drove hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency small-denomination paper. The printer, Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony, was one of the regional specialist firms that built a side business supplying Notgeld to municipalities far outside their immediate area — Geldern lies roughly 600 kilometres northwest of Glauchau.
The "Künstlerdruck" designation in Dulce's name signals an artistic printing process, likely a higher-quality lithographic run aimed at the collector market that had grown up around Notgeld issues by 1921.