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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Mainbernheim, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 95 x 65 mm |
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| Reverse description | The central rectangular vignette illustrates a fortified local landmark building with distinctive red roofs and towers, likely a civic or historic structure of Mainbernheim. Four corner roundels each bear the denomination numeral '50'. Flanking the central vignette on either side are vertical text panels carrying a German aphorism, lending the note a typographic decorative character typical of Notgeld issues of the period. |
| Reverse lettering | Wenn je der dem andern helfen wollte, wäre allen geholfen. 50 |
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Mainbernheim is among the smallest municipalities ever to issue emergency currency — a walled Franconian town whose population at the time of this note's printing barely exceeded a few hundred. The chronic coin shortage of 1920 drove even such minor communes to commission their own Kleingeldersatz, and Konrad Triltsch in Würzburg handled a considerable share of that regional demand, producing notes for numerous small Bavarian and Franconian issuers during the same period.
The DeNG dual reference (0859.1-2/2) indicates two distinct types within the series, making completeness a minor puzzle for specialist collectors of Franconian Notgeld.