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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münchenbernsdorf (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | h. Maunes, Münchenbernsdorf |
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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 description | Yellow-orange note printed in dark blue-grey, with an ornamental scrollwork border framing a large silhouette vignette divided into two scenes: at left, a standing figure at a writing desk with quill, and at right, a seated figure drinking from a vessel beside shelves of bottles, rendered in the Scherenschnitt (paper-cut) shadow-art style popular in Notgeld issues. Below the vignette, a four-line verse in Gothic script alludes to the visiting lawyer from Weida. Denomination '50' appears in the upper corners and abbreviated 'Pfg.' at the lower corners. |
| 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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