Catalog
50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinbach bei Bad Liebenstein, Kreis Meiningen (Thuringia) |
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| Size | 110 × 80 mm |
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| Reverse description | Green and red-orange bicolour note with elaborate green ornamental side panels enclosing red-orange denomination octagons reading '50 PF.' at each lateral edge. The central violet vignette presents the Luther Monument (Lutherdenkmal) amid tall conifers, enclosed by an iron fence, captioned 'Lutherdenkmal' at upper left of the image. Below, a bordered text panel in bold letterpress commemorates the capture of Dr. Martin Luther on 4 May 1521, with a small printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | Lutherdenkmal ZUM GEDÄCHTNIS AN DIE GEFANGENNAHME DR. MARTIN LUTHER'S • AM 4. MAI 1521 • 50 PF. |
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Steinbach bei Bad Liebenstein is a small spa-adjacent village in the Meiningen district of Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Gemeinde-level issues of 1918–1922 were typically printed in small regional runs, often at local printers, with no central oversight on design or print quality — which accounts for the enormous variation collectors encounter across Thuringian village issues.
The GRM reference places this within the standard Grabowski-Mehl notgeld catalog for German small-denomination municipal emergency currency. Six varieties are recorded under the 1261.1A series.