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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtischer Lebensmittelausschuss der Stadt Friedberg, Hessen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 78 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on a light grey paper with an all-over guilloche underprint incorporating repeated text 'FRIEDBERG' and circular rosette patterns. The denomination '25 Pfennig' is set in large ornate Fraktur letterpress script at centre, flanked by the issuing authority legend in Gothic type across the top. Lower portion carries the validity clause in smaller Fraktur text, the place and date 'Friedberg, den 1. Mai 1918' at lower left, and the authorising title of the deputy mayor of the municipal food committee at lower right, followed by a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Städtischer Lebensmittelausschuß der Stadt Friedberg Hessen 1917. Gutschein über 25 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1919. zum Bezug von Waren bei unseren Verkaufsstellen und den hiesigen Kolonialwarengeschäften. Friedberg, den 1. Mai 1918. Der stellvertr. Bürgermeister städtischer Lebensmittel-Ausschuß i. A.: Langsdorf |
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The Städtischer Lebensmittelausschuss — the municipal food committee — was not a bank. It was a wartime rationing authority, and its decision to issue small-denomination Notgeld in 1918 reflects just how thoroughly the German financial system had fractured under the strain of the blockade years. Pfennig coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, forcing even administrative bodies with no monetary mandate to plug the gap.
Friedberg in Hessen was a modest garrison and market town; its food committee issuing scrip is entirely consistent with the chaotic patchwork of emergency money produced across Germany in that final war year.