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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Rüstringen |
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| Size | 77 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in dark blue-grey on a fine guilloche underprint. The left panel contains a circular vignette of the Rüstringen municipal coat of arms — a standing armoured knight with a lion and cross motifs — set above the denomination '50 Pf.' in a bordered box. The right panel carries the guarantee text in letterpress and the issuing authority legend, with a manuscript signature below 'STADTMAGISTRAT'. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT, WENN ER NICHT INNERHALB 2 JAHRE NACH BEENDIGUNG DES KRIEGES BEI DER STADTKÄMMEREI ODER DER RÜSTRINGER SPARKASSE ZUR UMWECHSELUNG VORGELEGT WIRD. DER ABLAUF DIESER FRIST WIRD SPÄTESTENS 1 MONAT VORHER ÖFFENTLICH BEKANNTGEMACHT. |
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Rüstringen was a short-lived municipality — formed in 1919 from the merger of Wilhelmshaven's surrounding communities, it was absorbed into Wilhelmshaven itself in 1937. This Notgeld issue falls squarely within the hyperinflationary emergency currency wave that swept German municipalities between 1917 and 1923, when coin shortages and later monetary collapse forced local authorities to print their own small-denomination scrip.
The Stadtmagistrat — the city's administrative council — had no standing as a bank, which gives these notes their legally ambiguous character. Accepted locally by necessity, they carried no guarantee beyond the issuing authority's goodwill.