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| Issuer | Stadt Freiberg (City of Freiberg, Saxony) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig 10 ℳ Gültig im Bezirke der Stadt Freiberg i. Sa. mindestens bis zum 30. Septbr. 1921 Der Stadtrat zu Freiberg i. Sa. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Pfennig Stadt Freiberg Dieser Schein wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst. 10 ℳ LITH. ANST. ERNST LANGE, FREIBERG. |
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Freiberg's Notgeld issues of 1921 sit in the second wave of German municipal emergency money — not the immediate post-WWI scramble, but the inflationary creep that preceded the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1922–23. Stadt Freiberg, one of Saxony's oldest silver-mining centers, issued small-denomination scrip because Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted faster than it could be replaced.
Ernst Lange printed locally, which was entirely typical for Notgeld — municipalities dealt with whoever was nearby and available. The 52 × 37 mm format is characteristic of the smaller Kleingeldscheine intended for actual transactional use rather than the larger collector-oriented Serienscheine that flooded the market simultaneously.