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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Kleve (City of Kleve) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt 75 Cleve i. J. 1921 Der Bürgermeister Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufkündigung Wird bei allen städtisch. Kassen eingelöst Cleve LOUIS KOCH-HALBERSTADT |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central multicolour vignette of the Lohengrin monument in Kleve, rendered in green, ochre and brown tones, set against a sky of clouds with surrounding parkland trees; a caption 'Lohengriндenkmal' appears below the image with the series number '3' at lower right. Beneath the vignette, eight lines of Gothic verse from the 'Cleve Lied' (stanza 3) are printed in black, and the town name 'Cleve' is set in bold within the red lower border panel, flanked by heraldic trefoil ornaments. The outer border repeats the botanical and trefoil decorative scheme of the obverse, printed in red. |
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Kleve's 75 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 sits in a denomination that was genuinely awkward — three-quarters of a mark, an amount that reflects the specific small-change shortages hitting Rhenish municipalities as postwar inflation began eroding coin availability before the hyperinflation proper took hold. The choice of Louis Koch in Halberstadt as printer was commercially unremarkable; Koch produced notgeld for dozens of German towns during this period and ran an efficient small-format operation.
Kleve — the town long associated with the legend of the Knight of the Swan and later the brief marriage between Anne of Cleves and Henry VIII — issued this through its municipal authority rather than any banking institution, which was the norm for Rhenish cities under the decentralized emergency currency arrangements of the early Weimar years.