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5 Mark - Münsterberg
| Issuer | Münsterberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | Men05#18133.31, Men18#22686.31, Scheuch#214a |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Duke Bolko II of Münsterberg depicted in early medieval plate and chain armor, shown in triumphant pose with one foot planted upon a slain lion prostrate at his feet. The figure holds an unsheathed sword raised in the right hand and bears a heraldic shield in the left. The composition is executed in bold relief typical of German porcelain notgeld of the early 1920s, with the legend HERZOG BOLKO arching across the upper field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Münsterberg issued this porcelain notgeld piece during the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic collapse, when municipalities across Silesia resorted to ceramic currency produced primarily by Meissen and a handful of smaller regional kilns. Porcelain pieces of this period were as much civic propaganda as functional money — towns competed on design quality, and many were hoarded by collectors from the moment of issue, which explains why brown-glaze examples survive in far better condition than their paper counterparts from the same emergency issues.