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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Manebach (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD · GEMEINDE · MANEBACH · / 50 Pfg. / Manebach vom Elgersburger Wege. / Die Gültigkeit erlischt 1 Monat nach Aufruf. / der Gemeindevorstand: / Dez. 1921 |
| Reverse description | Central arched vignette, set within a green-bordered frame, illustrates two peasant figures kneeling beside a gravestone with a small funerary statue, rendered in a coloured folk-art style against a warm pink sky with conifers; the artist's monogram 'JZ' appears at lower right of the vignette. Decorative scroll ornaments flank the vignette on both sides, and a verse in Gothic script is distributed across the upper field and lateral margins. A bold red band at the base carries the denomination 'fünfzig Pfennig.' in white Gothic lettering, with the series designation 'Mönchhof serie 1–6' at lower left and the series number 'No 5.' at lower right. |
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Manebach is a small village in the Thuringian Forest, historically tied to coal mining and glassmaking — industries that kept a modest but steady workforce employed through the early Weimar inflation years. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave of 1921, when hundreds of German municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency currency to relieve the chronic coin shortage that plagued retail commerce after the war.
The DeNG reference indicates at least six to seven known varieties within this single 50 Pfennig issue, which is unusually high for a community this size and suggests multiple print runs or deliberate collector variants — a practice some municipalities exploited quite openly by selling sets directly to Notgeld collectors, a market that had grown large enough by 1921 to be worth courting.