Catalog
75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Monschau (City of Monschau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a vertical format and carries a multicolour letterpress vignette occupying the central field, depicting the ruins of Burg Haller (labelled 'Ruine Haller' in the upper left corner) set upon rocky terrain with foliage and a small church visible in the left middle ground. A dark decorative border with a dot-and-line guilloche band frames the composition on all sides, with the denomination numeral '75' and the word 'Pfennig' in ornate Gothic type at the upper left. A four-line verse in the local Ripuarian dialect is printed in a text panel at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfennig Gutschein der Stadt Monschau Ruine Haller Da Monsche bes nor welsche Grenz, Dat es vel wickler, as de mens, Denn Mouscher Art on welsche Senn, Do gon keen Bröcke tösche hen. |
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Monschau's 1921 Notgeld series is among the more artistically deliberate of the Rhineland municipal issues — the city had a clear interest in using emergency scrip as a vehicle for local promotion, and Lütkens was brought in to give the designs a coherent identity. The 75 Pfennig denomination sits in the middle of a series that leaned heavily on the town's medieval textile history and distinctive half-timbered streetscape.
Notgeld at this value was already edging toward the collector market rather than genuine small-change use. By 1921, many municipalities knew philatelists were buying directly from town halls, and print runs were adjusted accordingly.