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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Freienohl (Freiheit Freienohl im Sauerland, Prussian province of Westphalia) |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Freiheit Freienohl im Sauerland Die Gemeindekasse Freienohl zahlt dem Einlieferer den Wert dieses Scheines bis einen Monat nach erfolgter Aufrufung Der Amtmann: Der Gemeindevorsteher: No 05766 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Mark Freienohl im Sauerland Und Freude rings von Höhn zu Höhn! Von Tal zu Tal welch Lustgetön! O Gott, wie ist mein Land so schön. Ob ach sein Name – sauer. F. W. Grimme |
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Freienohl is a small village on the Ruhr river in the Sauerland, and its Gemeindekasse — the municipal treasury, not a bank — issued this note as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Thousands of German municipalities did the same, but most were larger towns. A settlement this size producing its own emergency currency is unusual enough to mark it as genuinely local necessity rather than the collectible-oriented Serienscheine that larger cities were printing for profit by 1921–22.
Westphalian municipal Notgeld from villages under 1,000 residents is consistently underrepresented in major collections.