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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza (City of Bad Sulza), Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Otto Henning A.G., Greiz, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note with an orange underprint, divided into a left denomination panel and a right text panel. The left panel carries the bold numeral '50' above the word 'Pfennig', while the right panel opens with the issuer heading 'Stadtgemeinde Bad Sulza.' in Gothic blackletter, followed by the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large decorative Gothic lettering. The payment obligation text, the issuance date 'Bad Sulza, am 25. Februar 1920,' the authority lines 'Der Gemeindevorstand. Der Gemeinderat.,' and two manuscript signatures are printed below in Gothic script, with a large circular underprint stamp bearing the municipal arms and the inscription 'STADTGEMEINDE BAD SULZA' centred on the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on cream paper with an orange underprint, the reverse is divided into a header band and a central vignette. The header carries the numeral '50 PFENNIG' at each lateral extremity flanking the Gothic blackletter inscription 'Sonnenburg-Bad Sulza'. The central vignette presents a fine line-engraved landscape view of Sonnenburg castle rising above dense woodland; at the lower margin, a text cartouche flanked by decorative fountain vignettes carries a two-line verse in Gothic script, with the printer's imprint 'OTTO HENNING AG., GREIZ.' at the lower right. |
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Bad Sulza was a small spa town in Thuringia whose local economy depended heavily on its saline springs and associated cure facilities. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Kleingeldscheine to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that followed the war — metal had been requisitioned, and the Reichsbank was in no position to fill the gap quickly. Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz was a regional printer that handled a significant volume of these municipal emergency issues across Thuringia and the surrounding states.
The 6b suffix in the Grabowski reference typically signals a distinguishing paper or color variant within the series — worth checking against the 6a if you're completing a type set.