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50 Pfennig Puppetry Series - Issue D
| Issuer | Sonneberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| 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 / Town Council / Valid until 1 July 1922 / Thuringian Publishing House Ltd., Jena) |
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| Reverse lettering | Im Muster D Zimmer 50 Pfg A Springkastla kracht a noch auf. Jetzt rasselts mitn Gabel drauf. (Translation: In the Model Room D / 50 Pfennig / A Jack-in-the-box pops up again. Now it's rattling with a fork.) |
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Sonneberg was Germany's toymaking capital, and its notgeld series leaned hard into that identity. The Puppetry Series belongs to the wave of collector-targeted "serienscheine" issued in the early 1920s, when municipalities discovered that hobbyists would pay face value for notes they'd never spend — effectively an interest-free loan to the issuer. Thüringische Verlagsanstalt in Jena handled a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld printing during this period, and the production quality generally reflects a commercial printer working quickly at scale.
Issue D designation within the DeNG reference indicates this is one of several sub-issues within the series, distinguished by either color variation, reverse text, or serial numbering — the precise differentiator is noted in the catalog suffix.