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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rheinsberg (City of Rheinsberg) |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in pink, ochre, and dark blue on a light ground, with an elaborate scrollwork border filling the entire frame. A central oval vignette presents a view of Rheinsberg Palace set against an orange sky with pink clouds, rendered in a fine letterpress style. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large gothic figures at left and right flanking the vignette, while a curved banner at top carries the Fraktur inscription 'Notgeld d. Stadt Rheinsberg'; below the vignette, a three-column text block in Fraktur records the validity conditions, the magistrate's authority, and the redemption instructions through the municipal treasury, with a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 Pfennig Pfennig 75 Bob. Koch |
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Rheinsberg notgeld of this denomination was part of the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922, as chronic coin shortages — made worse by hoarding and raw material speculation — left small transactions nearly impossible without locally issued substitutes. Rheinsberg, a small Brandenburg town best known as a retreat of Frederick the Great before his accession, was among hundreds of municipalities that contracted out production to regional printers rather than wait for Reichsbank relief.
The Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger was a Silesian newspaper press, one of many that supplemented their income by printing notgeld runs during this period. Rob. Koch's design credit is uncommon enough to note — most Kleingeldscheine went unsigned.