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50 Pfennig

Issuer Manebach (Thuringia), Municipality of
Year 1921
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Reference(s) DeNG 1/2#0866.1-2/7
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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
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Reverse lettering Ich fehlte einst!
Mönchhof serie 1-6
No 1.
fünfzig Pfennig.
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Manebach is a small mining village in the Thuringian Forest, historically dependent on coal extraction and glassmaking. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination coins, a problem rooted in wartime metal requisitioning that persisted well into the early Weimar years.

The DeNG reference places this within the broader Notgeld cataloging system for German localities, with the 0866 block covering Manebach's issues specifically. Two design variants are recorded under this number.

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