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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Miesbach (City Council of Miesbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated on the left by the Miesbach municipal coat of arms — a red shield charged with a stylised banner in white, red and blue, surmounted by a crenellated town wall, framed by decorative scrollwork — with the inscriptions 'Stadt' above and 'Miesbach' below. In the upper left corner, the Bavarian lozenge pattern in blue and white serves as a regional underprint motif, while a blue rectangular panel at lower left carries the regional designation 'Bayr. Hochland'. To the right, the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennige' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script beneath the heading 'Notgeldschein über', followed by a guarantee text and validity clause in Fraktur, dated 'Miesbach, am 29.12.1920', with the facsimile signature of the 1. Bürgermeister (First Mayor) alongside the issuing authority designation 'Stadtrat Miesbach'. The printer's imprint 'DRUCK: MIESBACHER ANZEIGER' appears at the lower margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Seidner (1. Bürgermeister) |
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Miesbach's 1920 Pfennig emergency money was a product of the postwar small-change famine that gripped German municipalities when coin metal was diverted and federal minting couldn't keep pace with demand. The Stadtrat commissioned the local newspaper press — the Miesbacher Anzeiger — to handle production, a common enough arrangement in rural Bavaria where specialist printers were scarce and the local paper already had the equipment and staff to turn work around quickly.
The Miesbacher Anzeiger was no anonymous provincial sheet: it had been edited by Georg Himmler, father of Heinrich, in the years just prior.