Catalog
25 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia) |
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| Size | 67 × 46 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Münchenbernsdorf Gutschein über 25 Pfennig 25 Pfennig Nachahmung strafbar Bürgermeister Der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Gültigkeit aufhört wird in der hiesigen Allgemeinen Zeitung bekannt gemacht A. Manbes, Münchenbernsdorf |
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| Reverse lettering | Münchenbernsdorfer Teppiche, Decken und Läufer finden in der ganzen Welt ihre Käufer! |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small Thuringian town, and this 25 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward — coins were being hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values, and thousands of municipalities stepped in to print their own small-change substitutes. The printer, A. Manbes, was a local firm, which was entirely typical of Notgeld production: the whole point was to keep the process municipal, fast, and cheap.
The Grabowski and Verbanz references both catalog this as a distinct type variant — the "b" suffix in M56.4b signals a printing or paper difference from the base type worth tracking in a collection.