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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Rietberg (Sparkasse der Stadt Rietberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Left panel bears the denomination numeral '5' in red and black Gothic script above 'Mark.' and 'Gutschein der Stadt Rietberg i. W.'; lower left carries a redemption clause text block dated 12. Mai 1921 with a manuscript signature and the title 'Stadtvorsteher'. Right panel is filled with a Low German verse in Gothic blackletter type, with a serial number at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 Mt. Rettung des Rietberger Schlosses Eden aus großer Belagerungsnot |
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Rietberg is a small Westphalian town, and its Sparkasse — the municipal savings bank — issued this note during the height of Germany's postwar Kleingeldnot, the small-change famine that followed the First World War. The Reichsbank's inability to keep low-denomination coins in circulation pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own emergency paper, and Rietberg was among the more obscure issuers to do so.
Ad. Essich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of Notgeld contracts for smaller northwest German communities during this period, producing competent but unspectacular work on tight schedules.