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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Rheinsberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue Notgeld note in Art Nouveau style, with a central vignette of a female head with flowing golden hair and decorative pendant, flanked by symmetrical laurel-and-grain garland swags rendered in gold and black. The denomination legend appears in Gothic script across the upper field, while the issuer inscription runs centrally in ornate lettering. The lower portion carries the municipal coat of arms of Rheinsberg — an eagle on an orange shield with scroll bearing the legend CIVIT RHEINSBERG — accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature and the authority designation to the right, with a serial number in violet at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in tones of grey-blue and pink, with a broad horizontally-lined border framing a central oval cartouche rendered in elaborate Baroque scroll and rocaille ornament. Within the oval, a bust portrait of an 18th-century noblewoman with powdered wig is set against a gold oval ground, surrounded by laurel sprays and rose clusters. Two upright rectangular panels at lower left and right each bear the numeral '50' on an orange roundel, and the designer's signature 'Rob. Koch' appears at the base of the central composition. |
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Rheinsberg's notgeld issue of 1921 draws on the town's association with Frederick the Great, who spent his years as crown prince at Rheinsberg Castle before ascending the Prussian throne — a detail the municipal authorities were clearly not shy about exploiting during the currency chaos of the early Weimar period. The Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger was a regional newspaper press, not a specialist security printer, which is entirely typical of small-town notgeld production when central banking infrastructure had effectively collapsed for denominations below a mark.
Robert Koch as named designer suggests locally commissioned artwork rather than stock imagery. Single signatory — Poppe — indicates the Magistrat operated with a lean administrative structure at the point of issue.