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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Meura (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-blue and ochre-yellow tones with a decorative guilloche border. A central oval vignette presents a view of the Meura village church (captioned "Kirche") with its distinctive tower set against a cloudy sky and autumn foliage. Denomination numerals "10" appear in circular cartouches to the left and right of the central vignette, with the value inscriptions "Zehn Pfennig" flanking them in blackletter script; the issuer name "Meura · Thür.Wald." is inscribed across the top, a facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorstand appears at lower right, and the date "1. Mai 1921" is noted at upper left. |
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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 |
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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.