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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Münnerstadt (City of Münnerstadt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 pfennig 50 pfennig Notgeld Stadt Münnerstadt Augegeben 1. Jan, 1921 gültig bis 1. Jan 1925 printed around the border: Flade Neuscht Bischeme Rhöner-Kreis printed on blue ribbons: hat`s holz, hat`n Stolz, hat`n Fleiß, so hast`n (Translation: Augegeben - issued (on date) gültig bis - valid until holz- wood or lumber Stolz - pride Fleiß - diligence or industriousness) |
| Reverse description | Multicolored reverse centered on a vignette of the Oberes Tor, a mid-13th century fortification tower of Münnerstadt, with the denomination numeral and a serial number field placed in the surrounding composition. A decorative border carries local place names rendered in regional Bavarian dialect — Münnerscht, Mellrischt, Kisska, Könshofa — while folk phrases are inscribed on blue ribbon motifs in the manner typical of Bavarian Notgeld of this period, with a space reserved below the tower vignette for the Stadtrat validation. |
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Münnerstadt's 1921 50 Pfennig Notgeld emerged from the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce in the early Weimar years — a crisis so severe that thousands of municipalities, towns, and even individual merchants were legally permitted to issue their own emergency currency. The Stadt Münnerstadt was a minor Lower Franconian market town with no particular financial standing, and its scrip would have circulated only locally, accepted by shopkeepers who had little choice.
The L#887c designation places it within Grabowski and Mehl's standard Notgeld cataloguing framework. Collector demand drove many towns to issue aesthetically elaborate series long after the shortage had eased — whether Münnerstadt's issue was purely functional or partly speculative printing is not documented.