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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Friedberg (Hessen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Carl Naumann's Druckerei (C. Naumann's Druckerei), Frankfurt am Main |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on pale green paper with an overall guilloche underprint of interlocking circular rosettes. The issuing authority 'Stadt Friedberg Hessen' is set in bold Gothic (Fraktur) letterpress across the top, followed by 'Gutschein über' in Roman type, with the large denomination '25 Pfennig' rendered in ornate Gothic script occupying the central field. The lower portion carries a three-line redemption clause in Fraktur, the place and date 'Friedberg, den 1. März 1919' at lower left, the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right, and a red typeset serial number at the foot left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig C. NAUMANN'S DRUCKEREI, FRANKFURT a. M. |
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Friedberg's 1919 Kleingeldscheine were issued to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that gripped German municipalities in the immediate postwar period — the Reichsbank's minting capacity had been exhausted by wartime demands, and towns were effectively left to fend for themselves. Carl Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt handled enormous volumes of municipal emergency currency from across the Rhine-Main region during this window, which makes individual issuer attribution straightforward but renders the printing itself unremarkable.
Friedberg was one of dozens of Hessian towns to issue in 1919 before central authorities began reining in the proliferation of local Notgeld later that year.