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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Cleve (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 | Vertically oriented reverse sharing the same red floral and clover-leaf border as the obverse, with a polychrome lithographic vignette occupying the upper half and captioned 'Im Tiergarten' — showing a neoclassical domed rotunda set among tall trees beside a tall jet fountain rising from an ornamental basin, rendered in a Jugendstil illustrative style. Below the vignette, seven lines of verse in Gothic script form the 'Clever Lied-4', a local patriotic poem, followed by the town name 'Cleve' in large display type at the foot within the decorative border; the denomination header 'Gutschein über 75 Pf.' appears at the top in Gothic blackletter. |
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Kleve's 75-Pfennig Notgeld denomination is an odd choice — most municipal issues of the early 1920s stayed with round figures, and the 75-Pfennig value appears relatively rarely in the broader Notgeld corpus. Stadt Cleve was still using the French spelling of the city's name on official documents at this point, a minor bureaucratic habit that occasionally confuses attribution.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a mid-tier regional printer responsible for a number of Notgeld commissions across central Germany during the 1921 peak of small-denomination municipal scrip production, when coin shortages made locally issued paper an administrative necessity rather than a collector novelty.