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| Issuer | Der Rat der Stadt Rehna |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | REHNA 10 REHNA PFENNIG PFENNIG DER RAT: De Welt dreiht sid, wat unnen liggt, kann baben kamen! Gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis zum 31. Mai 1922. Der Rat der Stadt Rehna. |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on an ochre-yellow ground, the reverse is dominated by a woodcut-style vignette of a rural townscape with thatched and gabled rooftops framed by a broad arched border with hatched fill. The denomination '10 PFENNIG 10' is inscribed in bold letterpress across the top arc. Along the lower margin, the inscription REUTERGELD REHNA identifies this note as part of the Fritz Reuter commemorative Notgeld series. |
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Rehna is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper in the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s. This note belongs to the Kleingeldscheine wave — the small-denomination notgeld produced to address a genuine shortage of coins, as metal coinage was being hoarded or simply couldn't keep pace with collapsing purchasing power. The town council, Der Rat der Stadt Rehna, had the legal standing to issue it, though the practical life of such notes was short and redemption was erratic.
The DeNG reference suffix ".2-1/3" indicates a specific variant within the series — likely a printing difference or paper stock distinction catalogued by Grabowski.