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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Rüstringen |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple on plain white stock, the reverse is framed by solid horizontal bars of the same colour at head and foot. A large pale underprint numeral '5' occupies the background behind a justified block of Gothic-style letterpress text setting out the note's redemption conditions, with a serial number typeset at the upper centre. |
| Reverse lettering | Nr. 082000 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT, WENN ER NICHT INNERHALB 2 JAHRE NACH BEENDIGUNG DES KRIEGES BEI DER STADTKÄMMEREI ODER DER RÜSTRINGER SPARKASSE ZUR UMWECHSELUNG VORGELEGT WIRD. DER ABLAUF DIESER FRIST WIRD SPÄTESTENS 1 MONAT VORHER ÖFFENTLICH BEKANNTGEMACHT. (Translation: This note loses its validity if not presented to the city treasury or the Rüstringen savings bank for exchange within two years after the end of the war. The expiry of this deadline will be publicly announced at least one month in advance.) |
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Rüstringen was a short-lived municipality on the North Sea coast — created in 1911 by merging several Oldenburg communities, it was absorbed into the newly founded city of Wilhelmshaven in 1937. Its Notgeld issues therefore come from a narrow administrative window, most of them clustered around the acute small-change crisis of 1917–1921, when German municipalities were forced to print their own low-denomination emergency scrip because official coinage had vanished from circulation almost entirely.
The Stadtmagistrat's 5 Pfennig note is among the smallest-denomination issues from this municipality — at that face value, the paper itself was arguably worth more than the sum promised.