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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on magenta-pink paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border with corner ornaments. The denomination numerals '50' appear in large bold type to either side of a central vignette of a robed standing figure set within an elaborate cartouche with scrollwork. Below the central vignette, the place name and date 'Münchenbernsdorf, 1. August 1921' appear to the left, with the issuing authority signature line to the right, above a detailed panoramic townscape of Münchenbernsdorf. The place name 'Münchenbernsdorf i. Thür.' is set in large Gothic lettering along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on magenta-pink paper, the reverse carries a large central vignette of a grey horse standing in a rural landscape before a farmhouse with trees, enclosed within an ornate border of interlaced foliate scrollwork. Denomination indicators '50' appear in the upper corners and 'Pfg.' in the lower corners. A four-line poem in Gothic script is set within a rectangular panel across the lower portion of the note. |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small town in the Greiz district of Thuringia, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it turned to locally printed Notgeld during the chronic small-change shortage that followed the First World War. H. Maures was a local printer — not a specialist banknote firm — which places this squarely in the cottage-industry tier of the Notgeld phenomenon, where the technical quality of the paper and printing varied considerably even within a single series.
The DeNG reference covers four varieties (0911.1 through 0911.3/4), suggesting minor design or text differences across the print run rather than distinct issues.