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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Freiburg (Silesia) (Prussian province of Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Schloss Furstenstein BEI FREIBURG Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städt. Kassen in Zah= lung genommen. Erverliert seine Gültigkeit drei Mo= nate nach Aufkündigung im ,,Freiburger Boten". FREIBURG (Schl.) d.15.Juni 1919. Der magistrat. (Translation: Ksiąz castle BY ŚWIEBODZICE This voucher is accepted by all municipal cashier's offices. It expires three months after publication in the “Freiburger Boten”. ŚWIEBODZICE (Silesia) d.15.June 1919.) |
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| Reverse lettering | FREIBURGER-UHRENFABRIKATE WELTBEKANNT FREIBURGER-UHRENINDUSTRIE GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 25 PFENNIG (Translation: WORLD-RENOWNED ŚWIEBODZICE CLOCK MANUFACTURERS ŚWIEBODZICE-CLOCK INDUSTRY VOUCHER FOR 25 PFENNIG) |
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Freiburg in Silesia — now Świebodzice, Poland — was a small industrial town whose municipal authorities issued this note amid the catastrophic small-change shortage that followed Germany's defeat in 1918. The federal coinage supply had effectively collapsed, and thousands of German municipalities filled the gap with their own Notgeld. The printer, Grube & Schneider, was a local firm operating in the same town where this note circulated, an unusual degree of geographic coincidence for Notgeld production, which more often relied on regional printers in larger centers like Breslau.
Silesia's political future was already uncertain by 1919, with plebiscite agitation beginning to intensify across the province.