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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rinteln (City of Rinteln) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Deutschland von feinden umdroht! Hilf ihm in heiliger Not! Grade auf dich kommt es an! - Hast du dein Bestes getan? Gutschein der Stadt Rinteln über Fünf Pfennig. Dieser Gutschein wird von der städtischen Kämmereikasse, den beiden hiesigen Sparkassen und den hier befindlichen Banken eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht spätestens drei Monate nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgezeigt wird. Rinteln, 25. Oktober 1918. Der Magistrat. Der Stadtverordneten-Vorsteher. i. V. i. V. Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover. |
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| Signature(s) | Christoph and Dr. Regener |
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Rinteln's 1918 Kleingeldscheine were a direct response to the wartime coin shortage that had stripped German small change from circulation — hoarding and metal requisitioning had made Pfennig coinage virtually unavailable by mid-war. Municipal authorities across Germany were empowered to fill that gap themselves, and hundreds of towns did exactly that. Rinteln used Gebrüder Jänecke, a well-established Hanover printing house with deep roots in commercial and official print work, to produce this series.
The dual-signature requirement — Christoph alongside Dr. Regener — and the applied official stamp were the town's mechanisms for authenticating each note as a genuine municipal liability, redeemable locally.