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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeindekasse Freienohl |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein der Freiheit Freienohls im Sauerland Die Gemeindekasse Freienohl zahlt dem Einlieferer den Wert dieses Scheines bis einen Monat nach erfolgter Aufrufung Der Amtmann — Der Gemeindevorsteher No |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig der Freiheit Freienohl Hannes holt diet links! |
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Freienohl is a small village in the Sauerland district of Westphalia, and its Gemeindekasse — the municipal cash office — issued this 50 Pfennig note as Notgeld during the acute small-change shortages that plagued Germany from 1917 onward. These hyper-local issues were a direct consequence of coin hoarding and metal requisitioning for the war economy; municipal treasuries had little choice but to print their own fractional currency to keep daily commerce moving.
Notes from villages this small typically circulated within an extremely tight geographic radius and were redeemed quickly once the emergency passed — survival rates outside the collector market are negligible.