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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Rheinsberg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on salmon-red paper in black letterpress, the obverse is enclosed within an ornate scrollwork border with baroque acanthus motifs at the corners. A central vignette displays the civic coat of arms of Rheinsberg — an eagle on a shield — flanked by martial trophies including crossed spears and a helmet, beneath the issuing authority text. The denomination numeral '25' appears in the upper left and right corners, with a serial number printed in violet below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Printed on salmon-red paper in black letterpress, the reverse carries a large central allegorical vignette of a robed female figure — representing Justice or Civic Virtue — seated and holding an open scroll tablet, accompanied by a cannon to her left and a winged griffin to her right. The denomination 'Pfennig' appears twice in Gothic script across the top panel, flanked by circular cartouches bearing the numeral '25' at each corner. The artist's name 'ROBERT KOCH' is inscribed along the lower edge of the vignette. |
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Rheinsberg's 25 Pfennig notgeld is one of a wave of municipal emergency issues produced when small change effectively vanished from German circulation during and after the First World War. The Magistrat commissioned the design from Robert Koch — almost certainly the local commercial artist of that name, not the bacteriologist — and contracted printing to the Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger, a regional newspaper publisher in Görlitz that took on notgeld contracts as a sideline during this period.
The single signature, Poppe, belongs to a Rheinsberg municipal official whose exact title the records do not reliably confirm. Görlitz-printed notgeld from newspaper presses tends to show slightly uneven ink distribution under magnification — a known characteristic of that printer's output.