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| Emittent | Stadt Rietberg (City of Rietberg), Westphalia, Germany |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse carries the issuer's title in Gothic blackletter script — 'Gutschein der Stadt Rietberg i. W.' — across the upper portion, with the large denomination numeral '50 Pf.' in bold red and black at the upper right. A pen-and-ink vignette in the left and lower centre depicts a moorland landscape with reeds, grasses, and pools of water in a local Low German artistic style. The right side bears a four-line dialect verse in Gothic script, followed by a redemption notice, the date 'Rietberg, den 12. Mai 1921,' and a facsimile signature above the title 'Stadtvorsteher.' |
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| Rückseitenlegende | 50 Pf. Die Schlosswälle bei Rietberg i. Westfalen. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Rietberg is a small town in the Teutoburg Forest region of Westphalia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with the inflationary pressure already building in the early Weimar years, and local authorities were effectively left to paper over the gap themselves.
Ad. Essich & Co. of Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld contracts during this period, producing competent if unspectacular work for small issuers across northwestern Germany. The DeNG reference 1123.1-2/5 suggests this note belongs to a numbered series within the Rietberg issue — likely part of a multi-value set circulated simultaneously.