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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rathenow (City of Rathenow) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 60 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red and pink diamond-pattern guilloche underprint covers the entire note. At upper centre, the issuer's name 'Stadt Rathenow' is set in a decorative cartouche printed in dark ink with Gothic lettering, while the large denomination numeral '5' appears in a framed vignette at left incorporating a civic eagle. The central text block carries the redemption clause in Kurrent script, followed by the place and date, the magistrate's designation, a manuscript signature, and a typeset serial number in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünf Pfennig Stadt Rathenow FAGER MAGDEBURG |
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Rathenow's 1917 Kleingeldscheine were a direct response to the hoarding of metal coinage that gripped Germany as the war dragged into its third year. With copper and nickel requisitioned for munitions, small-denomination coins vanished from everyday commerce, and hundreds of German municipalities were legally permitted to issue their own emergency fractional notes. Rathenow — a small Brandenburg town already known for its optical industry — was among them.
Fager of Magdeburg was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press, which is characteristic of the lower-denomination Notgeld from this period.