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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Rehburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows three women in traditional Rehburg folk costumes (Rehburger Trachten bis 1870) flanked by two local architectural landmarks: the Feuerturm (fire tower) to the left and a half-timbered Haustyp to the right, with stylised black silhouette figures of a lantern-bearer and a townsman at the outer margins. The denomination '50' appears in each corner within green circular guilloche rosettes, with the issuing authority inscription and date rendered in Gothic script across the lower portion of the note. A panoramic silhouette of the Rehburg townscape is printed in light underprint at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vivat hoch! 1 Großer Herr und König, Rehburg hat nur wenig, Doch es liebt Dich treu Siehe, wir die Deinen Hier vor Dir erscheinen Ohne Trug und Heuchelei. |
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Rehburg was a small spa town in Lower Saxony, and its municipal savings bank — like hundreds of other local German institutions — issued emergency small-change notes (Kleingeldscheine) during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I. The inflationary spiral of the early Weimar period had driven metal coinage out of circulation almost entirely by 1921, forcing even minor local authorities to print their own fractional currency.
Appelhans in Braunschweig was a regional commercial printer that handled a substantial volume of such Notgeld commissions across Lower Saxony. The DeNG reference places this within a documented series of eight variants (1/8), distinguished by minor typographic or color differences.