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1 Mark - Münsterberg
| Issuer | Münsterberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The central motif depicts a stylized house or shrine with a steeply pitched, dotted gabled roof, set upon a stepped rectangular plinth decorated with horizontal lines. To the left of the structure is a crescent moon and to the right a six-pointed star; a wheel or cross-circle ornament appears centrally on the facade. Two crossed swords or keys are placed beneath the plinth in the lower field. The date '1922' is distributed around the upper field with '1' and '9' to the left and '2' and '2' to the right, and the design is enclosed by a beaded rim. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Münsterberg's porcelain notgeld emerged from the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany after World War I, when municipal authorities across the country resorted to issuing their own emergency currency in whatever materials were locally available. Lower Silesia had proximity to established ceramic industries, which made fired porcelain a practical — if fragile — solution. The brown variant is catalogued separately from white and painted versions of the same type, distinctions that matter considerably to collectors of this specific series.