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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Berka (City of Bad Berka), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Bad Berka Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Bad Berka, den 20. Aug. 1920 Der Stadtgemeindevorstand: 50 Pfennig |
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| Signature(s) | Brauchenbruch |
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Bad Berka is a small spa town in Thuringia, better known as a place Goethe visited for cures than as a center of monetary administration. This note belongs to the vast German Notgeld wave of 1920, when municipal authorities across the country were authorized to issue small-denomination emergency scrip to address the acute shortage of official coinage — itself a consequence of metal hoarding and wartime disruption that had not resolved by the time the fighting ended.
Reineck & Klein, the Weimar press that produced this piece, handled a substantial volume of Thuringian municipal Notgeld during this period. The single signature, Brauchenbruch, is that of a local civic official rather than a bank officer — typical of how loosely the issuance apparatus was organized at the town level.