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50 Pfennig Puppetry Series - Issue A
| Issuer | Sonneberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Sonneberg : Thür. / Not-Geld / 50 Pfennig / Magistrat: / Gemeinderat: / Gültig bis 1. Juli 1922 / Thür. Verlagsanstalt G.m.b.H. Jena (Translation: Sonneberg : Thuringia / Emergency Money / 50 Pfennig / Magistrate: / Municipal Council: / Valid until 1 July 1922 / Thuringian Publishing House G.m.b.H. Jena) |
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| Reverse lettering | Im Musterzimmer / D' Nußknacke als Hauptma spricht: / Bei mir herrscht Ordnung beschtesta mich! (Translation: In the Model Room / The Nutcracker as the main captain says: / There is order with me, you'd better believe it!) |
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Sonneberg, in the Coburg district of southern Thuringia, was the center of Germany's toy manufacturing industry — dolls, marionettes, and mechanical figures had been produced there for generations. This 50 Pfennig Notgeld note is one of six in the Puppetry Series Issue A, a deliberate piece of local identity advertising dressed up as emergency currency during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922.
Thüringische Verlagsanstalt in Jena handled printing for a large number of Thuringian municipal Notgeld issues in this period, producing relatively high-quality multicolor work on short runs that were often collected rather than spent — a revenue strategy many small municipalities exploited openly.
The six-piece series structure (1/6 through 6/6) was calculated to encourage complete-set collecting, keeping notes out of circulation and the redemption fees in municipal coffers.