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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Rüstringen |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Rüstringen is positioned to the left, flanked by the issuing authority's name and the denomination '5 Pf.' set in bold letterpress type. A guarantee inscription confirms the Stadtmagistrat's commitment to redemption, all contained within simple ruled borders typical of wartime German notgeld issues. |
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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. |
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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.