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80 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Rathenow |
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| Value | 80 Pfennigs (80 Pfennige) (0.80) |
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| Obverse description | Green and multicolour Notgeld note with an ornate black border incorporating foliate corner cartouches. A central vignette in colour presents a townscape of Rathenow with a tall Gothic church steeple rising above surrounding rooftops and trees, set against a clouded sky. The denomination '80' appears in Gothic script at upper left and upper right, flanked by text blocks carrying the redemption and validity inscriptions, with the issuing authority 'der Magistrat' and two facsimile signatures printed below the vignette; the printer's imprint 'Flemming-Wiskott A.G. Glogau' runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Rathenower Zietenhusaren 80 Pfg Rathenow |
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Rathenow's municipal government issued emergency Pfennig denominations during the Weimar-era notgeld crisis, when a catastrophic coin shortage forced hundreds of German towns to print their own small-change substitutes. The 80 Pfennig value is one of the more awkward denominations of the period — a deliberate gap-filler rather than a round figure, calibrated against whatever other values the Magistrat had already committed to paper.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled a substantial volume of municipal notgeld commissions across Silesia and Brandenburg. Their output was reliable but rarely distinguished.