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| Issuer | Stadtrat Münnerstadt (City Council of Münnerstadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Münnerstadt Ausgeg. 24. Dez. 20 gültig bis 1. Jan. 1925 Stadtrat |
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| Reverse lettering | Münnerstadt 10 10 der Stadt Notgeld JÖRGEN TOR |
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Münnerstadt is a small Franconian town in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, and like hundreds of similarly-sized German municipalities in 1920, its city council issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to plug the coin shortage that had persisted since the war. The Reichsbank had stopped releasing low-denomination coins into circulation years earlier, and local authorities were legally permitted to fill the gap. Most of these hyperlocal issues ran for only a few months before being recalled and destroyed.
Survival rates for Münnerstadt's Notgeld are low simply because so little was printed to begin with — the issuing population was under three thousand.