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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Meiningen (City of Meiningen), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadtkämmerei und der Städtischen Sparkasse in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb zweier Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. 50 50 · 15 Mai 1920 · |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red, green and brown on a salmon-coloured ground, centred on a vignette of the Meiningen Rathaus (town hall) enclosed within a large wreath of oak leaves tied with a red-and-white ribbon. A circular green-framed medallion at the lower left contains the red numeral '50', while a corresponding circular frame at the right bears a round embossed or impressed seal. The issuer name 'Meiningen' appears in bold red Fraktur at the upper right, with 'Notgeld der Stadt' at the upper left; the serial number is printed in black at the lower left, and the facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister Keßler together with the authority line 'Der Magistrat / Oberbürgermeister' appears at the lower right. The printer's imprint '· Gg. Lilie ·' is placed below the central vignette. |
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Meiningen's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of municipal emergency currency — after the initial wartime shortages forced improvisation, smaller cities like Meiningen had by 1920 turned the form into something almost deliberate, printing locally rather than waiting on a banking system still struggling to function. Gg. Lilie was a regional printer, not one of the large specialist houses, and the quality of the series reflects that.
Keßler's signature as Oberbürgermeister gives the note its formal legal grounding under municipal authority — without that, it was just paper.