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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Meura (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Meura · Thür.Wald. 1. Mai 1921 Zehn 10 Pfennig Kirche 19 21 Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Ausgabe A Gem. Vorstand |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in vivid multicolour with a dark blue decorative border of repeated dot-and-star ornaments. A panoramic background vignette depicts a Thuringian forest landscape with rolling wooded hills and a winding road extending into the distance on each side. At centre, a large quatrefoil cartouche carries the denomination "10 Pfennig" in bold blackletter script over a heraldic shield showing a sunflower and rising sun on a blue field; four small daisy ornaments accent the cartouche corners. Flanking prose inscriptions in German script at lower left and right carry the Notgeld motto, and the printer's imprint "Merzdorf & Frosch, Saalfeld a. S." appears at the very foot of the note. |
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Meura is a village in the Thuringian Forest with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred — which makes this Notgeld note a curiosity of municipal overreach in the best possible sense. During the small-change crisis of 1921, even the most obscure German communes were legally permitted to issue emergency fractional currency, and thousands did exactly that. Meura's participation in that wave was handled by Merzdorf & Frosch in nearby Saalfeld, a regional printer that processed similar commissions for dozens of small Thuringian issuers that year.
The DeNG reference places this within a numbered series, suggesting at least one companion denomination was issued alongside it.