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| Emittent | Sonneberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Währung | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse is printed in orange and dark blue on white paper, with a large white triangle at centre enclosing the denomination numeral '25' in bold orange script above the word 'Pfennig' and the legend 'Notgeld der Stadt' in matching calligraphic lettering. The town name 'Sonneberg' is inscribed in large ornate script below the triangle, flanked at upper left and right by the municipal coat of arms within an elaborately patterned dark background of stylised floral and foliate motifs. The lower portion carries the issuing authority designations 'Der Magistrat' and 'Der Gemeinderat' with two manuscript signatures, the issue date 'am 21. Januar 1921', and the printer's imprint 'Karl Staudinger Sonneberg' at the foot. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | 25 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Sonneberg Der Magistrat: Der Gemeinderat: am 21. Januar 1921. Karl Staudinger Sonneberg |
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Sonneberg's 1921 Kleingeldscheine were printed locally by August Eichhorn, a Sonneberg-based printer with no connection to the major German security printing houses. The city issued these small-denomination emergency notes to address the chronic coin shortage that afflicted virtually every German municipality in the early Weimar period — by mid-1921, hoarding and metal costs had driven fractional coinage almost entirely out of everyday trade.
The dual-signature format, pairing the collective authority of the Magistrat with the countersignature of Ad. W. Müller, was the city's procedural safeguard against unauthorized reproduction — a real concern given how many municipal printers lacked security printing capability.