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75 Pfennig Männer-Gesang-Verein
| Issuer | Männer-Gesang-Verein Geldern |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour Notgeld in red, yellow, blue and ochre. The central vignette presents the tomb monument of Karl von Egmond (†1538) rendered in a Gothic Revival style with a recumbent effigy atop a panelled sarcophagus decorated with relief figures. The denomination 75 appears in large numerals at lower left and right, with the civic arms of Arnheim and Jülich in the upper corners. |
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| Protection description | Verschlungene Kreise (interlaced circles watermark) |
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Männer-Gesang-Verein Geldern — a men's choral society — issued this 75 Pfennig note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany's towns in the early 1920s. Municipalities, clubs, merchants, and civic associations all stepped in as quasi-issuers of Kleingeldersatz, and choral societies were among the more unusual entrants. The Geldern example is notable for carrying a watermark, a security measure that most private Notgeld issuers skipped entirely as an unnecessary expense.
Collector interest in this type runs high precisely because of the issuer's improbable nature.