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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Rüstringen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | At left, the municipal coat of arms of Rüstringen is printed in letterpress. To the right, the issuing authority's name and the Stadtmagistrat's guarantee clause appear in a plain serif typeface characteristic of wartime German Notgeld production. The denomination is stated in the lower portion of the design. |
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| Reverse description | A serial number is printed at the upper portion of the note, framed above and below by horizontal rust-brown rules, with a further rule at the foot. The central field is occupied entirely by the redemption notice in black letterpress text, set in a plain serif typeface, specifying the two-year post-war exchange deadline at the Stadtkämmerei or the Rüstringer Sparkasse. |
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Rüstringen was an independent municipality on the Weser estuary — later absorbed into Wilhelmshaven in 1937 — and like hundreds of German towns in 1917, it resorted to issuing its own emergency small change when the war economy stripped metal coinage from circulation almost entirely. The Stadtmagistrat, the municipal governing body, had no formal banking authority; these Notgeld issues were produced on purely local initiative to keep daily commerce functional.
At 1 Pfennig, this is among the lowest denominations recorded in German municipal wartime emergency issues — a reflection of just how acute the small-change shortage had become by mid-war.