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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Der Mönch von Münchenbersdorf Zehn Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Münchenbersdorf Münchenbersdorf i. Thür., den 1. September 1921. Der Stadtgemeindevorstand Bürgermeister. |
| Reverse description | Upper half carries a letterpress vignette titled 'Die Gerichts-Sitzung', showing three period-costumed figures seated at a table with an open ledger, a horse's head visible through a window behind them; the artist's signature 'H. Grimm' appears at lower left of the vignette. Below, a two-line verse in blackletter reads 'So mancher weise Richterspruch / Ward inscripiert ins Aktenbuch.' The lower register presents a bold black silhouette panorama of the Münchenbersdorf townscape with church spires and factory chimneys, above the caption 'Münchenbersdorf und die Sage vom Advokatensteig.' |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small textile-manufacturing town in the Greiz district of Thuringia, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany during the postwar coin shortage. The Reichsbank simply couldn't mint small change fast enough to meet demand, so thousands of towns printed their own. Most of this material was produced speculatively for collectors rather than genuine circulation needs — by 1921, the Notgeld trade had become its own cottage industry.
Designer H. Grimm is otherwise unattested in the major reference literature for this series.