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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld printed in dark brown on light green paper, with an ornate border of scrollwork and diamond motifs. The denomination numerals '50' appear in large bold type at upper left and right, flanking a central vignette of a robed ecclesiastical figure within an elaborate cartouche of acanthus scrolls. Below, a panoramic silhouette of the Münchenbernsdorf townscape with church spires and rooftops extends across the lower half of the note, above the town name in Gothic script along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Einst ritt auf waldumrauschtem Pfad, Den er zum Heimweg sich erkor, In sich gekehrt der Advokat, Als er das Gleichgewicht verlor. Pf Pf |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small textile-manufacturing town in the Greiz district of Thuringia, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — that German municipalities printed during the postwar coin shortage of 1921. With silver and nickel coins disappearing from circulation almost entirely, hundreds of towns turned to local printers rather than wait for the Reichsbank to fill the gap. H. Matthes was a local printer, not a specialist in security printing, which is exactly what makes Notgeld of this type interesting: the production values reflect whatever the town could arrange quickly and cheaply.
The DeNG reference classifies this within a numbered series for the issuer, suggesting at least two distinct types exist for Münchenbernsdorf's 1921 output.