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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rat der Stadt Friedland i. M. |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-toned Notgeld note printed with a hatched border framing a Fraktur verse inscription at the top and a line-drawn central vignette of the Friedland town hall, its stepped gable and steeple rendered against an orange underprint with figures in the foreground. The denomination '25 Pfennig' appears in large red numerals and lettering flanking the vignette on either side. The lower panel carries the validity clause, the issuing authority's name, and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two vertical panels: the larger left panel carries a boldly rendered line-drawn vignette of a medieval Gothic city gate tower in red-brown tones against a pale blue sky, while the narrower right panel, printed in grey wood-grain style, bears the denomination '25 Pf.' in gold numerals with three black horizontal bars at the foot. A heading in ornate Jugendstil lettering across the top reads 'Friedland i. M. Reutergeld' against a dark hatched ground. |
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Friedland in Mecklenburg issued this 25 Pfennig Notgeld during the early 1920s inflationary period, when municipal authorities across Germany were forced to produce their own emergency small-denomination paper because official Reichsbank coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply outpaced by rising prices. The Rat der Stadt, the town council, acted as issuer of last resort for a community that would otherwise have had no practical means of making change.
Friedland i. M. is a small market town in what was then the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Its Notgeld issues are relatively minor in the broader collector landscape of German municipal emergency money, which ran to thousands of distinct types.