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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rheinsberg (City of Rheinsberg) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an ornate green scrollwork border with Art Nouveau flourishes. A central oval vignette carries an intaglio-style portrait bust of a historical figure wearing a tricorn hat, set against an amber-toned background, flanked by two blocks of Gothic-script text detailing validity and redemption conditions. The denomination "Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig" is printed in large blackletter type in the lower half, above a serial number at bottom left, with the issuing authority "Notgeld der Stadt Rheinsberg" inscribed in a banner across the top and a manuscript signature "Poppe" appearing to the lower right of the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Rheinsberg Mark Dies Notgeld verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. Die Einlösung erfolgt durch die Kämmereikasse. Der Magistrat. Poppe Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig |
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Rheinsberg notgeld occupies a specific niche even within the crowded German emergency money issues of 1918–1922. Oehmigke & Riemschneider, based in Neuruppin just a few kilometers away, were primarily a regional printer and publisher known for illustrated calendars and popular literature — not a specialist banknote firm. Their notgeld output for Brandenburg towns tends to show that background, leaning toward decorative regional imagery over any pretense of security printing.
The town itself is best known as the residence of Crown Prince Frederick before he became Frederick the Great — a biographical detail that local authorities exploited heavily in notgeld artwork of this period.