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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kempen am Rhein (City of Kempen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Kempen-Rhein Gutschein über 75 Pfennig 75 DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON ALLEN STÄDT. KASSEN IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH AUFKÜNDIGUNG IN DEN KEMP. ORTSBLÄTTERN. DIE STADTGEMEINDE KEMPEN HAFTET FÜR DIE EINLÖSUNG. KEMPEN RHEIN. 9.3.20 DER BÜRGERMEISTER |
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| Protection description | Zigzag-line watermark pattern (Keller #146) |
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Kempen's 1920 Kleingeldscheine program was a direct response to the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar years — municipal and corporate issuers flooded the country with small-denomination notgeld to fill the gap left by hoarded or melted metal currency. The watermark on this issue is notable for notgeld of this size and ambition; many comparable municipal issues from the same period dispensed with security features entirely.
Kempen am Rhein — today known simply as Kempen in North Rhine-Westphalia — was under Allied occupation at the time of issue, the Rhineland having been placed under inter-Allied administration following the Armistice.