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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Freienwalde an der Oder |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark violet-blue and golden-olive tones on a plain tan ground, the central rectangular vignette presents a finely rendered letterpress view of the neoclassical Moorbad spa building set amid trees. Matching ornate key-shaped denomination panels — '1/2 MARK' at left and '50 PFG.' at right — flank the central image, with a patriotic motto in Fraktur script carried on a banner above and a secondary Fraktur legend running along the lower border. The printer's imprint 'Adolf Forker, Leipzig' appears in italic script at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Wie einst die Welt am deutschen Wesen So wirst Du hier im Moor genesen! Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
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Freienwalde an der Oder was a small spa town on the Oder, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it resorted to printing its own fractional emergency currency — Notgeld — as the imperial government's metal coinage disappeared entirely into hoarding and industrial use. The Kleingeldenot of the war years hit small towns disproportionately hard; without enough coin to make change, local commerce simply stalled.
Adolf Forker in Leipzig was a workhorse printer of municipal Notgeld, producing issues for numerous small communities across Saxony and Brandenburg. Nothing technically exotic here — the interest is purely documentary.