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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Rathenow |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., Glogau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld with an olive-green decorative border of stylised foliate scrollwork framing the central vignette of St. Marien church in Rathenow, viewed from the riverbank with trees and town buildings in the foreground. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in Gothic script at upper left and upper right, with the town name 'Rathenow' in large Gothic lettering across the top centre. Text panels flanking the vignette carry the redemption clause on the left and the validity expiry notice on the right, with the issuing authority 'der Magistrat' and two manuscript signatures below the vignette; the printer's imprint 'Flemming-Wiskott A.G. Glogau' runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Rathenow 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von den städt. Kassen in Rathenow eingelöst. Ungültig drei Monate nach Aufruf in den amtlichen Blättern der Magistrat: FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.G. GLOGAU. |
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Rathenow, a small Brandenburg town on the Havel River, was already famous as the global center of optical instrument manufacturing when this note was issued — the industry dated back to Hans Lipperhey's followers settling there in the seventeenth century. The 1921 Notgeld wave hit smaller German municipalities hard, and civic authorities like the Magistrat were essentially forced into emergency currency production to relieve a chronic small-denomination coin shortage that had persisted since the war.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott printed extensively for German municipal issuers during this period from their Glogau facility — the town was firmly within German Silesia at the time of printing, though it would become the Polish Głogów after 1945.