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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rathenow, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Rathenow 75 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 |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Und ist die dame noch so fein, Ihr Stielglas muß aus Rath'now sein Rathenow |
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Rathenow, a small Brandenburg city on the Havel River, was already the dominant center of German optical instrument manufacturing by the early 1920s — the industry had been there since the late eighteenth century. That local identity almost certainly shaped the design choices the municipality made when commissioning this notgeld series from Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott, a Silesian printing firm that handled a substantial volume of the emergency currency boom following the postwar inflation surge.
The 1921 notgeld wave was partly practical and partly philatelic speculation — municipalities knew collectors were buying, and print runs were sized accordingly. Glogau, now Głogów, was German territory at the time of printing.