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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freienwalde in Pommern |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELDSCHEIN Das Notgeld verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach ortsüblicher Bekanntmachung. Der Magistrat 25 Pfennig 1921 FREIENWALDE i/P. Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a richly detailed woodcut-style vignette, signed 'ROBERT KOCH' at lower centre, conceived as an allegorical scene of Freienwalde. A fully armoured medieval knight at left, bearing a lance and the city's heraldic shield, faces a seated female figure at right who holds a decorative roundel; between them, flowing ribbons carry the issuing authority inscription, with a panoramic townscape including a church tower rendered in fine line work as the middle-ground backdrop. |
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Freienwalde in Pommern — not to be confused with Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg — issued this Notgeld note during the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce in the early 1920s. Municipal and local authorities across thousands of German towns stepped in to fill the gap left by the federal government's inability to produce sufficient low-denomination coinage, and the Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger, a regional newspaper publisher turned emergency currency printer, handled a significant volume of such commissions from Pomeranian municipalities.
The designer credit to Robert Koch is worth noting — local Notgeld series frequently engaged regional artists, and the resulting designs range from the purely functional to the genuinely inventive.