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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Münchenbernsdorf Gutschein über 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig Nachahmung strafbar. Bürgermeister Der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Giltigkeit abläuft wird in der hiesigen Allgemeinen Zeitung bekannt gemacht. |
| Reverse description | Dark brown and orange letterpress vignette on a near-black ground, enclosed within the same orange border frame as the obverse. A bold promotional woodcut-style illustration fills the lower two-thirds of the field, showing an arrangement of rolled carpets, runners, and folded textile pieces in varying patterns, referencing the town's textile industry. Above the illustration, a three-line advertising inscription in white script on the dark ground promotes Münchenbernsdorf carpets, blankets, and runners as finding buyers throughout the world. |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small Thuringian town, and this note is exactly what you'd expect from German municipal Notgeld at its most local — printed by a hometown press, A. Matthes, which almost certainly had no dedicated banknote production experience. The Grabowski reference M56.4c places it within a known series, suggesting the town issued multiple values and variants during the 1920 small-change crisis, when coin hoarding and metal shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to paper over the gap themselves.
Collector demand for Thuringian town issues varies sharply by scarcity within the series; the .4c suffix indicates a specific variant, likely a paper stock or color distinction from sibling notes.