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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Meuselbach, Thüringer Wald |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain black letterpress on white paper within the same ornate guilloche border, with the numeral '50' repeated at each corner. The central field presents the issuer's name and denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large Fraktur script, followed by a block of redemption and anti-counterfeiting conditions in smaller Gothic typeface, with the serial number printed below in a larger upright font. A folk verse inscription in Fraktur appears above and below the central text block. |
| Reverse lettering | Warum in die Ferne schweifen Gemeinde Meuselbach Thür. Wald Fünfzig Pfennig Nachahmungen dieses Gutscheines werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. Scheine, bei denen die Nummer ganz oder teilweise fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb von 3 Monaten nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Gemeindevorstandes zur Einlösung bei der Gemeindekasse in Meuselbach vorgelegt wird. No 15288 Denn das Gute liegt so nah |
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Meuselbach is a small resort village in the Thuringian Forest, and like hundreds of German municipalities during 1920–1921, it issued Kleingeldscheine to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. What distinguishes many Thuringian Forest notgeld issues from purely utilitarian emergency scrip is the deliberate appeal to collectors — local authorities quickly recognized that philatelic and notgeld collectors would buy and hoard these notes, effectively generating revenue for the municipality at no redemption cost.
Whether this particular 50 Pfennig note was part of a cynically designed collector series or a genuine circulating necessity is a question the issue date alone cannot answer.