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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rehna (City of Rehna) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1922 |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a line-art vignette of the Rehna town hall, a multi-storey baroque-style building with a domed cupola and clock, set within a yellow decorative border with ornamental scrollwork. To the right, the denomination '50 Pfennig' is rendered in large red Gothic typeface above a grey underprint panel carrying the issue date 'Rehna, den 18. August 1921', an expiry notice, and two manuscript signatures above their respective institutional titles. The printer's imprint 'Druck von Gebrüder Borchers G.m.b.H., Lübeck' runs along the lower edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Rehna i. Meckl. 50 Pfennig Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem 31. Dezember 1922. Rehna, den 18. August 1921. Der Rat der Stadt. Die Stadtverordneten-Versammlung. Druck von Gebrüder Borchers G.m.b.H., Lübeck. |
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Rehna is a small market town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued emergency paper currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar period. The Stadt Rehna notes of 1921 were purely a local stopgap, filling the coin shortage that had been grinding on since the war years stripped copper and nickel from circulation for military use.
Gebrüder Borchers in Lübeck were prolific printers of municipal Notgeld across northern Germany, producing runs for dozens of small issuers simultaneously — which is why the production quality is competent but not distinguished. The DeNG reference suffix ".1-2/2" indicates two varieties within this issue, typically differentiated by serial or date details.