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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 lettering | NOTGELD DER HAUS ZU DEN FÜNF RINGEN FÜNFUNDSIEBZIG PF. GÜLTIG BIS EINEN MONAT NACH AUFRUF FÜNFUNDSIEBZIG PF. GOCH: 1.1.1922 DER BÜRGERMEISTER 75 PF STADT GOCH 75 PF Johannes Arndt Druckerei Jena. |
| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette in a folk-art style illustrating a procession of Dutch civilians — men, women, and children in traditional dress and wooden clogs, carrying baskets — walking between trees toward a signpost reading 'NACH GOCH', with a border guard figure at right and a 'Rijksrechten' customs post at left, alluding to cross-border trade from the Netherlands. The denomination '75' appears in red panels at lower left and right. A blue panel across the lower portion carries a two-line German couplet in black letterpress. |
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Goch is a small town in the Lower Rhine, and its 1922 notgeld issue is one of several hundred municipal emergency currency sets produced during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar Republic. The designer Kötschau — first name unrecorded in most catalog sources — contributed to multiple notgeld commissions during this period, when German printing houses like Johannes Arndt in Jena were running near-continuous shifts to meet demand from municipalities legally authorized to issue their own fractional notes.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is specific to notgeld — it had no equivalent in the regular Reichsbank series, which never bothered with such fractions.