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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Steinach (Sachsen-Meiningen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 91 × 51 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in dark brown and rust-red, enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border. A decorative baroque-style guilloche underprint in red-brown occupies the centre, incorporating a circular municipal seal vignette. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is set in large Fraktur letterpress across the middle, with the issuing authority legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Steinach' in bold Gothic script at the top and the sub-legend 'Sachsen-Meiningen.' to the right. The date '1. VIII. 1920' appears twice in the lower corners flanking the numeral '50 ₰', with the legend 'Der Magistrat:' above a manuscript signature of the First Mayor ('I. Bürgermeister'). |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Steinach Sachsen-Meiningen. Fünfzig Pfennig Der Magistrat: I. Bürgermeister. 1. VIII. 1920 50 ₰ |
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Steinach, a small glassworking town in the Thuringian highlands, issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar economic disruption. Municipal authorities across hundreds of German towns printed their own emergency fractional currency in 1920–1921, and Steinach's series is typical of the administrative tier — issued by the Magistrat rather than a savings bank or merchants' association, meaning it carried direct civic authority and was theoretically redeemable at the town treasury.
The DeNG reference places it within the documented Saxe-Meiningen issues catalogued by Grabowski and Mehl. Steinach notes from this series are not considered rarities, but attrition through redemption and discard thinned the surviving population considerably.