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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freienwalde in Pommern (City of Freienwalde in Pommern) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a large central vignette of a female bust with flowing red-orange hair adorned with a six-pointed star, set against a forest landscape rendered in a Jugendstil woodcut style. The denomination '25' appears in stylized red Gothic numerals in the upper corners, flanked by vertical side panels bearing the issuing authority text in black Gothic script. Below the central vignette, two inscriptions in Gothic lettering indicate the validity clause at lower left and the authorizing magistrate with a facsimile signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed panoramic townscape vignette of Freienwalde as it appeared in 1785, with the Gothic parish church dominating the skyline above a cluster of half-timbered houses, a windmill visible at upper left, and a rowing boat on the foreground water. The denomination '25 Pfg.' appears in ornate Gothic numerals in both upper corners, and the whole composition is enclosed within a decorative scrollwork border printed in dark tones on a salmon-pink ground. The artist's name 'Robert Koch' is inscribed at lower right of the vignette, with the town name and date 'Im Jahre 1785' in calligraphic script above and below respectively. |
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Freienwalde in Pommern — not to be confused with Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg — was a small Pomeranian town that issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce from roughly 1917 onward. Municipal authorities across Germany were effectively deputized by necessity to fill the gap left by hoarded coins, and thousands of towns did exactly this. The Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger, primarily a regional newspaper publisher, took on considerable Notgeld printing work during this period alongside its core business.