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| Emittent | Steinbach bei Bad Liebenstein (Thuringia), Municipality of |
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| Form | Rectangular |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Central vignette presents a peasant woman in traditional Thuringian dress, carrying a rake over her shoulder, set against a panoramic view of Steinbach with rolling wooded hills beyond. A green guilloche border frames the lower panel, which bears the denomination in two red circular cartouches at left and right reading '50 Pf.', flanked by ornamental scroll work, with the issuer inscription 'STEINBACH / KREIS MEININGEN' centered between two manuscript signatures. A red overprint banner at upper left reads 'GÜLTIG 30 TAGE NACH ABRUF', and a green serial number is printed in the upper left field. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Central vignette, captioned 'Kirche', presents a black-and-white view of the Steinbach village church with its distinctive steeple rising above traditional half-timbered buildings and a garden wall. The image is flanked on both sides by elaborate green guilloche and floral border panels, with red circular denomination cartouches reading '50 Pf.' at the left and right. Below the vignette, a four-line verse in German script is set within a ruled text panel, and a small artist's signature appears at the lower right. |
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Steinbach bei Bad Liebenstein is a small spa-adjacent village in the Thuringian Forest, and this 50 Pfennig Notgeld piece is precisely the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that flooded Germany between 1917 and the early 1920s as small municipalities struggled with the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation. The wartime hoarding of metal coinage left communities like Steinbach with no practical means of making change, forcing even villages of a few hundred residents to print their own.
The Grabowski-Mehl reference places this within a very large documented series of Thuringian municipal issues — cross-referencing is the only reliable way to distinguish the two known types in this sub-series.