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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0911.3-3/4 |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a narrative vignette illustrating the local legend of the Advokatensteig: a mounted rider on a rearing white horse is restrained by a figure on foot before the façade of the "Bayrischer Hof", with the caption "Der Heimritt nach Weida" inscribed within the scene; denomination panels marked "50 Pf." appear at upper left and upper right, flanked by decorative pillar ornaments and barrel motifs. Below, a bold black silhouette panorama of the Münchenbernsdorf townscape stretches the full width of the note, showing church spires, a windmill, chimneys, and factory buildings. A couplet verse reads "Nun Rösslein, tu fein sachte traben, Weit ist der Weg, doch nah der Graben", and the lower margin bears the title legend "Münchenbernsdorf und die Sage vom Advokatensteig" with the printer's imprint at bottom left. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Der Heimritt nach Weida Bayrischer Hof Nun Rösslein, tu fein sachte traben, Weit ist der Weg, doch nah der Graben Münchenbernsdorf und die Sage vom Advokatensteig Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder, Gera-R. |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small Thuringian market town, and its participation in the Notgeld wave of 1921 was typical of hundreds of similar municipalities scrambling to fill the small-change vacuum left by hoarded Imperial coinage. The printer, Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera, handled Notgeld commissions for numerous Thuringian communities during this period — their output was competent regional work, not prestige printing.
The DeNG reference suffix distinguishing .3 from .4 likely indicates a paper or color variant within the same issue, a common complication with Gera-printed Notgeld where production runs were sometimes split across available stock.