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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rheinsberg (City of Rheinsberg) |
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| Size | 89 × 59.5 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Rheinsberg Dies Notgeld verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. die Einlösung erfolgt durch die Kämmereikasse. Der Magistrat. Poppe Fünfzig Pfennig |
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| Signature(s) | Poppe |
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Rheinsberg is a small Brandenburg town best known for its Schloss, where Frederick the Great lived as crown prince in the 1730s. This 50 Pfennig note belongs to the German Notgeld wave of 1917–1922, when municipalities across Germany issued their own emergency paper to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small metal coinage during and after the First World War. Dehmigke & Riemschneider in nearby Neuruppin were among the regional printers who absorbed enormous demand from smaller towns lacking access to major commercial presses.
The single manuscript signature — Poppe — represents a municipal official countersigning at issue, a legal formality intended to give the scrip local authority.