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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rheinsberg (City of Rheinsberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an ornate green Art Nouveau border with scrollwork corners. At centre, an oval vignette presents a portrait bust of a figure in a tricorn hat, set against a brown tonal background, flanked by two blocks of Gothic blackletter text; the left panel gives validity conditions for the Notgeld, the right panel states redemption terms through the Kämmereikasse and bears the signature 'Poppe' for Der Magistrat. The denomination 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' is rendered in large Gothic script across the lower half, underprinted with a decorative golden arabesque panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 25 25 OEHMIGKE & RIEMSCHNEIDER, NEU-RUPPIN. |
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Rheinsberg notgeld was issued during the inflationary spiral that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when chronic coin shortages forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own small-denomination emergency money. Oehmigke & Riemschneider, based in nearby Neuruppin, were prolific regional printers of exactly this kind of municipal paper — they handled notgeld for numerous Brandenburg towns during this period, which means the print quality is competent but not remarkable.
Rheinsberg itself is best known as the retreat of Crown Prince Frederick before he became Frederick the Great, a association the town leaned on heavily in its notgeld imagery. The single signatory, Poppe, would have been a municipal official authorizing the issue on behalf of the city administration.