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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 112 × 77 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-orange note printed in dark blue-grey, with an ornate frame enclosing the denomination numeral '50' at upper left and right flanking a central vignette of a robed ecclesiastical figure standing within a cartouche-style surround with scrollwork. The lower half carries a panoramic silhouette townscape of Münchenbernsdorf with a river in the foreground, below which the issuer's name appears in large Gothic lettering. Issue date and validity clause are inscribed in the central text area, with a manuscript signature to the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Pfg. Pfg. Als es noch nicht wie heute war, Da jeder 'was zu streiten hat, Kam höchstens dann und wann im Jahr Aus Weida mal der Advokat. |
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Münchenbernsdorf is a small textile-industry town in the Greiz district of Thuringia, and this 50 Pfennig note belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany in 1921 as postwar inflation made Reichsbank coin disappear from everyday transactions almost entirely. Printed locally by H. Maunes — a printer otherwise nearly invisible in the philatelic record — the note reflects the hyperlocal character of this emergency currency, where production quality and artistic ambition varied wildly from one town to the next.
The DeNG reference places this as the second variety in the 911 series, suggesting at least minor revisions between printings.