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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freienwalde in Pommern |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown, pink, and blue tones within a bold rectangular border. The upper panel carries the legend NOTGELDSCHEIN in large Gothic lettering, while the lower panel bears FREIENWALDE i/p. in matching style. The central vignette shows a winged putto writing in a large open book, beside which stands an ornate candelabrum with foliage; to the right, the denomination numeral 50 appears within a circular cartouche above the word Pfennig. The year and a serial number are printed in the lower portion of the central field, with the printer's name noted beneath the outer border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue, brown, and pink tones within a multi-rule border with fine line underprint. The upper portion features a decorative frieze of stylised acanthus scrolls flanked by pilaster motifs. The central vignette on a blue ground presents a classically rendered male figure, draped at the waist, straining to arrange a large fluted urn overflowing with flowers and fruit, with scattered blossoms at his feet. To the upper left the inscription Freienwalde in Pomm. appears in Gothic script, while to the right the numeral 50 is set within a wreath cartouche. A scrolled lower panel carries the denomination legend Fünfzig Pfennig flanked by floral ornaments. |
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Freienwalde in Pommern — not to be confused with Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg — issued this note during the Notgeld emergency currency wave that swept German municipalities in the early 1920s as chronic small-coin shortages made everyday commerce nearly impossible. Thousands of towns commissioned their own fractional paper, most printed cheaply by regional newspaper presses. The Görlitzer Nachrichten und Anzeiger was exactly that: a local Silesian publisher that took on Notgeld contracts alongside its ordinary print work.
Görlitz sits roughly 200 kilometers from the issuing town — an unremarkable contracting distance for the period.