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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Freienohl (Municipality of Freienohl, Sauerland, Westphalia) |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels printed in blue and black on cream paper. The left panel carries the denomination '25 Pfennig' in a large numeral above the locality inscription 'Freienohl im Sauerland' enclosed in a scrollwork cartouche. The central panel presents a detailed intaglio-style landscape vignette of a wooded river valley with a solitary figure on the bank and dense conifer forest rising steeply behind. The right panel contains a six-line verse in Westphalian Low German dialect, attributed at foot to 'F. W. Grimme', rendered in decorative Fraktur script. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig Freienohl im Sauerland Biärgaff is lichse, Biägopp gäit richte; Dat äine met Klaisen, Dat andre met Schwäisen F. W. Grimme. |
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Freienohl is a small village on the Ruhr river in the Sauerland, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change famine — that gripped Germany after World War One. Coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank offered no practical solution at the local level. Township treasuries stepped in.
The Gemeindekasse — literally the municipal cash office — was the issuing body, not a bank, which tells you something about how desperate and decentralized the response was. Freienohl's notgeld is among the more obscure Westphalian issues; the village never grew large enough to attract much philatelic attention, which keeps collector premiums modest.