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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Triptis (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld on cream paper with a double-ruled border. A central oval vignette, framed by elaborate acanthus-scroll ornaments, presents two standing figures in regional folk costume beneath a large leafy tree; the male figure holds a chalice, the female holds a flower. The denomination '50' appears in large blackletter numerals in each corner, flanked by stylized 'Pf' monograms. Below the vignette, the text 'DER STADTGEMEINDEVORSTAND' is printed in roman type, with the manuscript facsimile signature of Stötzner beneath. The artist's signature 'P. Schönheit' appears below the vignette. Blackletter legends run along all four margins. |
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| Reverse description | Green-tinted reverse on cream paper with a single-ruled border. A central shield-shaped vignette, flanked on each side by a tall Celtic cross on a stepped plinth, frames a finely drawn townscape of Triptis with a church steeple rising above dense foliage under a clouded sky. At the apex of the vignette, a pair of cherub heads emerges from a radiating sunburst device. The denomination '50' is repeated in each corner within arched cartouches, and the words 'NOTGELD TRIPTIS' are set in large blackletter type across the lower portion of the note. The artist's signature 'P. Schönheit' appears at lower right. |
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Triptis was a small porcelain-manufacturing town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the early 1920s hyperinflation spiral, it resorted to printing its own Notgeld to keep small transactions moving when Reichsbank coinage disappeared from circulation. The 1921 date places this squarely in the transitional phase — before the catastrophic hyperinflation of 1923, but already deep into the shortage crisis that made local emergency issues a practical necessity across the region.
P. Schönheit's involvement as designer is consistent with the Thuringian practice of commissioning local artists for these issues, giving many of them a distinctly regional craft sensibility.