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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freiburg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in deep blue with bold gold acanthus-scroll borders framing a central arched vignette, rendered in full color, presenting a panoramic aerial view of the town of Freiburg in Schlesien with its church towers, rooftops, trees, and surrounding hills stretching to the horizon. The town name 'Freiburg i. Sch' is lettered in white Gothic script across the top blue border, and the numeral '25' in white appears within a decorative cartouche at the base of the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | Freiburg i. Sch 25 |
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Freiburg in Schlesien — not to be confused with the better-known Freiburg im Breisgau — was a small Silesian market town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it resorted to printing its own small-denomination Notgeld as Reichsbank coinage remained hoarded or melted. The 25 Pfennig value sits squarely in the most over-produced tier of the Notgeld phenomenon, which means genuine circulation survivors with honest wear are actually harder to find than pristine collector issues, since much of this material was sold directly to dealers and never touched a till.
Lower Silesian municipal issues from this period were transferred to Polish administration following the 1945 territorial settlement; the town is now Świebodzice.