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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Vechta |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | VESTUNGH: VECHTÆ 75 PFENNIG Die Gültigkeit erlischt 2 Monat nach öffentl. Aufkündig. Vechta · 15. März 1922 Der Magistrat: LOUIS KOCH · HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a stark, expressionistic two-colour vignette set against a near-solid black background, showing a large red silhouette of a chained dog prowling through a dark wooded landscape with a ruined gatehouse visible in the upper right. The denomination numeral '75' is set in white at the upper left corner. Gothic blackletter inscriptions form a two-line verse across the top and bottom borders, completing a local legend couplet. |
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Vechta's municipal notgeld issue of 1922 sits at the tail end of the German inflation-era small-change crisis, when hundreds of German towns — Vechta among them — were forced to print their own fractional emergency currency simply to keep local commerce moving. Louis Koch in Halberstadt was a workhorse printer for provincial notgeld contracts across Lower Saxony and beyond; his output for small municipalities during this period was enormous, and quality control varied considerably between runs.
The DeNG reference grouping (variants 1–3/6) suggests multiple color or text variants within the series — typical for Koch's municipal contracts, where plate adjustments between print runs were common and not always documented cleanly by the issuing authority.