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50 Pfennig - Münsterberg
| Issuer | Münsterberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | Men05#18133.14, Scheuch#204a |
| Obverse description | The obverse features the municipal coat of arms of Münsterberg enclosed within a raised equilateral triangle set against a plain field. The arms depict a fortified city gate with towers and battlements. The legend MÜNSTERBERG arcs along the upper periphery, while SCHLES. appears along the lower portion, separated by small decorative stops, all in incuse Latin lettering against the surrounding field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Münsterberg issued this porcelain notgeld in 1921 as part of the broader German emergency coinage movement, during which hundreds of municipalities turned to ceramics — primarily sourced from Meissen and Thuringian factories — when metal remained scarce and politically fraught in the post-war settlement years. The brown coloration distinguishes this piece from the white-glazed variants catalogued under the same Scheuch reference series.
Porcelain coinage was never legal tender in any strict sense; its acceptance depended entirely on local commercial agreement and civic goodwill.