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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Goch (City of Goch) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER HAUS ZU DEN FÜNFRINGEN FÜNFUND=SIEBZIG PF. GÜLTIG BIS EINEN MONAT NACH AUFRUF FÜNFUND=SIEBZIG PF. GOCH: 1.1.1922 DER BÜRGERMEISTER STADT GOCH 75 PF |
| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette in a naive illustrative style showing civilians and a soldier at a road junction with signposts reading 'Nach Holland' and 'Nach Goch', set beneath leafy trees; the scene alludes to cross-border smuggling during the post-war occupation period. Denomination '75' in red at lower corners within a blue panel bearing the explanatory caption. |
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Goch, a small market town in the Lower Rhine region near the Dutch border, issued notgeld in the early 1920s as the Weimar Republic's hyperinflationary spiral made Reichsmark coinage effectively disappear from circulation. Municipal authorities across Germany were effectively forced into the currency business by circumstance, not ambition. The Arndt press in Jena handled an enormous volume of these regional issues during this period, making them a reliable if geographically distant production partner for dozens of small municipalities.
Kötschau's design work for the Goch series is the one detail that lifts this above anonymous filler printing.