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75 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 presents a detailed letterpress illustration of the Haus zu den Fünf Ringen, a historic stepped-gable merchant house in Goch, rendered in red and blue. Flanking the central image are two panels each bearing the municipal heraldic lion rampant on a blue field, with red floral ornaments below; bold denomination panels reading '75 PF.' occupy the lower corners. The upper legend reads 'NOTGELD DER' in large block capitals, with 'STADT GOCH' along the lower border, while the left and right panels carry the denomination in full and validity clause with the issuance date and Bürgermeister signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT GOCH HOLLAND ES KNALLT DES ZÖLLNERS SCHIESSGEWEHR JA, LEICHT IST'S SCHMUGGELN DOCH NICHT MEHR 75 75 |
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Goch is a small Rhenish town near the Dutch border, and its 1922 notgeld series was produced during the peak of municipal emergency currency issuance in Germany — the period between the armistice inflation and the catastrophic hyperinflation that would render all such notes worthless within a year. The Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena printed notgeld for dozens of municipalities during this window, often working from designs supplied by local commissions or individual artists rather than in-house staff.
The designer credit to Kötschau is notable — a name attached to several Thuringian-connected notgeld commissions of the period, though biographical records remain thin.