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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Rathenow |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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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: WHL FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.G. GLOGAU |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-grey and black on a grey granular-effect paper, the reverse is dominated by a bold vignette of a mounted hussar in full uniform — the 'Rathenower Zietenhusar' — seated on a dark horse and raising a bugle to his lips, with a lance resting over his shoulder. The denomination '50 Pfg.' appears within a circular guilloche roundel at upper right, and the town name 'Rathenow' is inscribed within a decorative blackletter panel at the lower margin. The designer's monogram 'WHL' is noted at lower right within the vignette. |
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Rathenow, a small Brandenburg town on the Havel, issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos that gripped Germany after the First World War. The Magistrat, the municipal governing body, authorized these notes precisely because the Reichsbank could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation; metal had been stripped from the economy by wartime requisitioning, and the gap had to be filled locally.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling municipal contracts from across the region.