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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Rathenow (City of Rathenow) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Rathenow Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Geldschein wird von den städtischen Kassen zu Rathenow eingelöst. Rathenow, den 1. Mai 1917 Der Magistrat Ungültig drei Monate nach Aufruf in den amtlichen Blättern |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Stadt Rathenow 50 MBER MAGDEBURG |
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Rathenow's 1917 notgeld issue came out of the same wartime necessity that flooded Germany with thousands of municipal emergency notes — small change had effectively disappeared from circulation as metal coinage was hoarded and requisitioned for war production. The printer, Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., operated out of Glogau (now Głogów), then a German city in the province of Silesia, a major center for commercial printing in the region.
Rathenow itself was historically synonymous with optical instrument manufacturing — the birthplace of the eyeglass lens industry in Germany, a detail that rarely appears in notgeld literature but distinguishes the town from the hundreds of anonymous municipalities issuing identical-format emergency scrip that year.