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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Freienwalde in Pommern |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 70 × 47 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a double-ruled rectangular border with hatched background, the four corners each bearing a numeral '5' within a beaded circle. A central oval cartouche, framed by elaborate acanthus-leaf and floral scrollwork, contains the denomination in Gothic script above the coloured municipal arms of Freienwalde — a quartered shield in black and gold — flanked by the issuance date 'November 1920'; the issuing authority name appears below in Kurrent script. A small engraver's signature is visible at the lower right of the cartouche frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünf Pfennig November 1920 Freienwalde i. Pomm. |
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Freienwalde in Pommern — a small Pomeranian town, not to be confused with Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar period. Municipal and local authorities across the country were legally permitted to issue emergency paper (Notgeld) to fill the gap left by hoarded or melted coinage, and the Magistrat exercised that right here. Thousands of German localities did the same between 1919 and 1921, which is why collector interest tends to focus on series with unusual vignettes or printing errors rather than the denomination itself.