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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Freienwalde in Pommern |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | ENKEL·SOLLEN·KRAFTVOLL·WALTEN, SCHWER·ERRUNGNES·ZU·ERHALTEN 19 OKTOBER 1813 Der Notgeldschein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach öffentlicher einen Monat Bekanntmachung Der Magistrat |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünf Pfennig November 1920 Freienwalde i. Pomm. |
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Freienwalde in Pommern — a small market town on the Oder — issued this low-denomination Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation. Municipal authorities across Germany were effectively printing substitute coinage at this point, and local printers absorbed the demand.
The Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger was primarily a newspaper publishing house, not a specialist security printer. That a regional press was commissioned for currency work tells you more about the chaos of 1920 Germany than any economic index could.