25 Pfennig

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.