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20 Pfennigs - Freyung Alois Mader
| Issuer | Alois Mader, Freyung |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Men18#10305.1 , Hasselmann#353.1 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ALOIS MADER 20 FREYUNG |
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Freyung, a small market town in the Bavarian Forest near the Austrian border, produced a wave of emergency coinage in 1918 as the German imperial economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions. Alois Mader — almost certainly a local merchant or tradesman — issued this iron notgeld to keep small transactions moving when federal coinage had all but vanished from circulation. Iron was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had been redirected to the war effort years earlier.