50 Pfennig

Rheinsberg notgeld carries more cultural weight than most small-town emergency issues. The city is inseparable from Frederick the Great, who spent his formative years there before ascending the Prussian throne — a fact local authorities were not shy about exploiting when designing their scrip during the postwar inflation crisis.

The printer, Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger, was a regional newspaper press in Görlitz that took on considerable notgeld work during 1920–1921, when municipalities across Germany scrambled for any available press capacity. Designer credit to Robert Koch is noted in the DeNG reference, though he remains a minor figure with no substantial independent documentation.