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25 Pfennig Brotmarke
| Issuer | Stadtrat Mainbernheim (City Council of Mainbernheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 2#0859.1 |
| Obverse description | Tan and brown letterpress note with a central vignette of two winged allegorical figures flanking the denomination numeral 25 within an ornate wreath, above the town coat of arms showing a bear. A silhouette skyline of Mainbernheim runs along the lower margin. The Bürgermeister's facsimile signature and date appear at lower left, with a red serial number at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Flugann (Bürgermeister) |
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Mainbernheim is a small Franconian market town — population well under a thousand even today — and its decision to issue emergency bread coupons in 1920 reflects just how thoroughly the postwar supply crisis had fractured local economies across Germany. This is a Brotmarke, a bread ration note, not a conventional Notgeld denomination intended as a currency substitute. The distinction matters: it was redeemable against a specific commodity, not against a monetary value held by the issuing municipality.
Konrad Triltsch in Würzburg-Aumühle printed enormous quantities of small-town Franconian Notgeld during this period and handled similar commissions for dozens of surrounding communities.