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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Cleve (City of Kleve) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Red and cream notgeld printed in letterpress, with a floral and clover-leaf decorative border in red running along all four sides. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Cleve — a red shield bearing four white trefoils and a smaller inset shield — is printed boldly, surmounted by the large numeral '75' in red. Below the arms, the place and date inscription appears in Gothic script alongside a facsimile mayoral signature and a printed serial number on ruled lines; the issuer name 'Cleve' appears in large Gothic lettering at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette occupying the upper portion of the reverse, presenting a picturesque landscape view of the Schwanenburg (Swan Castle) of Cleve seen across a calm lake, with two swans in the foreground, lush trees framing the scene, and the castle tower rising against a light sky; the caption 'Die Schwanenburg' appears below the vignette. The lower half carries a seven-line poetic text in Gothic script ('Cleve-Lied 2'), with the issuer name 'Cleve' in large Gothic lettering at the foot, all enclosed within the same red floral border as the obverse. |
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Kleve's 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the dense wave of municipal emergency currency produced across Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denominations in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. Stadt Cleve — the older spelling retained on the note itself — commissioned Louis Koch of Halberstadt, a regional printer responsible for numerous Weimar-era notgeld issues across northern and central Germany.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is characteristically awkward, appearing frequently in notgeld but rarely in standard Reichsbank issues — a gap municipalities were happy to fill for their own convenience.