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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rehna (City of Rehna) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The upper-left corner carries an intaglio-style portrait bust of the Low German poet Fritz Reuter, bearded and wearing spectacles, within a plain frame. To its right a yellow guilloche-bordered panel contains a Low German prose quotation attributed to 'Fritz Reuter, Urgeschicht von Meckelborg, Kapitel twölf.' The lower half presents six lines of Low German verse in bold black gothic script on ruled red lines, introduced by a large decorative red initial 'A'. At the lower right a square cartouche displays the denomination '25 Pf.' in interlocked red and yellow gothic numerals and letters on a grey ground, and a yellow scroll-wave guilloche band runs along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Dunn tred de oll Mann von den Helpter Barg wedder vör un säd: „Dörchleuchten, dat is man, dat ick dorvon red; äwer seihn S', ick hür tau de Rehn'schen un wi hewwen so vel as en Quark kregen." Fritz Reuter, Urgeschicht von Meckelborg, Kapitel twölf. As Vadder Japhet mit sin Kinner In't Meckelbörger Land treck' rinner Un ledt dat in de Grawwel smiten, Deed Rehn en lüttes Stück man riten: En Quark von Feldmark kreeg wi man, Doch gaud is s' – kiekt s' jug man mal an! 25 Pf. |
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Rehna is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued Notgeld not because of any particular local crisis but because the chronic small-change shortage following the First World War made it practically unavoidable. The Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the inclination to supply sufficient low-denomination coinage to every rural corner of the country, so towns filled the gap themselves.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck were a regional commercial printer — competent but not among the specialist Notgeld houses that courted collectors with elaborate multicolor designs. Rehna's issue is a workaday piece, printed for use rather than the philatelic trade that had already begun distorting Notgeld production elsewhere by 1921.