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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Manebach (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Central arched vignette of a kneeling youth in a forest clearing, rendered in a Romantic illustrative style with warm tones of red and green. Decorative scroll ornaments flank the vignette on either side, and a red panel at the foot of the note carries the denomination in large Gothic script. Series designation 'Mönchhof serie 1–6' and number 'No 4' appear at lower left and lower right respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | Büßend u. betend u. sehnsuchtskrank, bis ich zu Tode niedersank. Ihr Bild, ihr Name: mein letztes Wort. Mönchhof serie 1-6 No 4 fünfzig Pfennig. |
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Manebach is a small mining village in the Thuringian Forest, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin shortages became acute following the war. The DeNG reference covers at least seven variants within this single 50 Pfennig type — an unusual number for a settlement of this size, suggesting either multiple printing runs or deliberate collector series, a common and commercially shrewd practice among German municipalities during this period.
Distinguishing the variants typically comes down to color differences and serial numbering, and the .1-5/7 sequence implies variant 6 is either unlisted or does not exist.