25 Pfennig

Ribnitz's 1922 emergency issue belongs to the vast Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities as Weimar-era inflation made Reichsbank coin disappear from everyday commerce almost overnight. Towns, companies, and transit authorities printed their own fractional notes because there was simply nothing else to make change with. The Reichsbank explicitly tolerated — if never formally sanctioned — this parallel circulation.

The DeNG catalogue reference places this among thousands of documented municipal issues, most printed in short runs by local or regional jobbing printers. Ribnitz, a small town on the Mecklenburg coast, produced relatively modest quantities; survivorship is partly a function of how aggressively the issuing authority redeemed its paper once the hyperinflationary peak passed in late 1923.