25 Pfennig Brotmarke

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.