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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freiburg i. Schles. (City of Freiburg in Silesia) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a central vignette of Schloss Fürstenstein bei Freiburg, flanked by corner value tablets bearing '25'. Below the castle, the city arms of Freiburg in Silesia appear on a heraldic shield; guilloche underprint carries 'STADT' and 'FREIBURG SCHLES'. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue note with a central vignette of a seated woman at a spinning wheel, flanked by decorative panels. Two circular medallions carry clock-industry motifs; denomination appears in bold along the lower border. |
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Freiburg in Silesia — now Świebodzice, Poland — issued this Notgeld during the severe coin shortages that gripped Germany in the final year of the First World War. The metal scarcity was acute enough that municipal authorities across the Reich were authorized to print their own emergency fractions, and hundreds of towns did exactly that.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll of Düren supplied paper and printing to a significant share of the small-denomination Notgeld market in this period — their name appears on issues from dozens of municipalities, which makes attribution to the printer reliable but in no way distinctive.