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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Freienwalde in Pommern |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width woodcut-style vignette by the artist Robert Koch, whose name appears in the lower centre. At left, a fully armoured medieval knight holds a lance and bears a heraldic shield with the town arms of Freienwalde; at right, a female allegorical figure holds a money bag and leans against a large decorative scroll, with a townscape including a church tower rendered in red visible in the background between the two figures. Flowing ribbon banners arch across the upper portion of the composition, and the entire scene is enclosed within a bold ruled border on a yellow paper ground. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Freienwalde in Pom. im Jahr 1920 ROBERT KOCH |
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Freienwalde in Pommern — not to be confused with Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg — issued this Notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the immediate postwar years. Municipal authorities across Pomerania stepped in to fill the gap left by an overwhelmed central currency system, printing low-denomination emergency paper locally rather than waiting on Berlin.
The designer credit to Robert Koch is worth noting: whether this refers to a local commercial artist or a regional printer's staff designer is unconfirmed, and the name is common enough that attribution should not be pressed further without documentation.