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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Freienohl (Municipality of Freienohl, Sauerland, Prussian Province of Westphalia) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is organised into three vertical panels on a light blue-bordered ground. The left panel carries "25 Pfennig" and "Freienohl im Sauerland" in green Fraktur lettering with small decorative flourishes. The central panel presents a pen-and-ink landscape vignette in dark ink showing a winding river path through a forested valley with a solitary figure in the foreground. The right panel contains a stanza of Westphalian dialect verse attributed to "F.W. Grimme" in black Fraktur script. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Freienohl im Sauerland Biärgaff is lichte, Biägopp gäit richte; Dat äine met Flaisen, Dat andre met Schwäusen F.W. Grimme. |
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Freienohl is a small village on the Ruhr river in Sauerland, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage of 1917–1921. These fractional paper notes were a local fix for a national problem — metal had been absorbed by the war effort, leaving everyday commerce without small change. The Gemeindekasse, the municipal cashier's office, rather than any banking institution, was the issuing authority here, which was entirely typical for Westphalian village Notgeld.
Freienohl was absorbed into the larger municipality of Meschede in 1975.