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50 Pfennig - Münsterberg
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Münsterberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | STÄDTISCHE SPARKASSE SPARMARKE 50 PFENNIG ✦ MÜNSTERBERG ✦ |
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| Reverse lettering | SPARE IN DER ZEIT SO HAST DU IN DER NOT (Translation: SAVE IN TIMES OF PLENTY SO YOU SHALL HAVE IN TIMES OF NEED) |
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Münsterberg — today Ziębice in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld piece through its municipal savings bank during the postwar inflationary spiral that made Reichsbank coinage disappear from circulation almost overnight. Aluminum was the practical choice: cheap, abundant, and workable by local die-cutters without the infrastructure of a proper mint. Thousands of German and Austrian municipalities did the same between 1918 and 1923, producing a fragmented emergency currency system that the Reichsbank tolerated because it had no immediate alternative.
The Funck reference places this among the later aluminum varieties of the Münsterberg series.