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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 VECHTE·1591·S·CIVITATIS Die Gültigkeit erlischt 2 Monat nach öffentl. Aufkündigung Vechta · 15. März 1922 Der Magistrat: |
| Reverse description | Green, black, and brown letterpress note reverse. The central vignette is a bold silhouette composition showing a large bear moving across a heath landscape, with bare trees to the right and a faint town skyline in the pale background. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large white figures at lower right within the vignette. Framing Gothic-script inscriptions run across the upper and lower borders, forming a poetic couplet referencing the heath; a small series number '6' is placed at the lower right border. |
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Vechta's 75 Pfennig notgeld from 1922 falls into the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — not the genuine wartime scarcity issues of 1914–1918, but the later "collector's notgeld" that small German towns printed deliberately to generate revenue through philatelic sales. By 1922, hyperinflation was accelerating fast enough that many of these pieces were obsolete almost upon arrival, bought by collectors and never spent.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer serving numerous small municipal issuers across Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt during this period, with no particular distinction in the notgeld trade beyond reliability and cost.