25 Pfennig

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.