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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Rehburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents three women in traditional Rehburg regional costumes (Rehburger Trachten bis 1870) standing before a town gate dated 1648, flanked on the left by the Feuerturm (fire tower) and on the right by a half-timbered Haustyp, with silhouette figures of a lantern-bearer and a watchman at the outer margins. The denomination '50' appears in green guilloche roundels at each corner, with the issuing authority inscription and validity clause rendered in ornate calligraphic script across the lower field. A panoramic silhouette of the Rehburg townscape forms a decorative underprint behind the signature panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vivat hoch! 7 Edle Senatoren, Zum Heil der Stadt erkoren, Schließen still den Zug. Auch im kleinen Kreise Nützen sie und weise Tönt ihr Rat und Sitten- spruch. |
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Rehburg is a small spa town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its savings bank — the Sparkasse — was forced into issuing its own emergency money simply because the Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough to meet demand. This is Notgeld in its most functional form: a stopgap printed locally by Appelhans of Braunschweig, a commercial press that handled a significant volume of such commissions across the region during this period.
The reference splits this into seven or eight varieties, likely reflecting serial number ranges or minor typographic differences across print runs — a level of granularity that matters chiefly to specialists working the DeNG catalog.