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50 Pfennig Puppetry Series - Issue E
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Sonneberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green, red, and black on cream paper, with two interlocking circular vignettes at centre: the left medallion bears the rampant lion of the Sonneberg civic arms in dark red, while the right medallion carries the denomination numeral '50' and the inscription 'Not-Geld Pfennig' in red Gothic lettering. Decorative scroll cartouches flank both sides, and a bold blackletter heading reads 'Sonneberg: Thür.' across the top. Two facsimile manuscript signatures appear at lower left and lower right beneath the titles 'Magistrat' and 'Gemeinderat', with the validity legend 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1922' and the printer's imprint of Thür. Verlagsanstalt G.m.b.H., Jena along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Im Muster E Zimmer Dos Elend's wird's noch go zu viel, Weil noch da Teufel is im Spiel (Translation: In the sample room E / The misery will yet become too great, / Because the devil is still in the game.) |
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Sonneberg was the center of Germany's toy and doll industry, and the Magistrat leaned into that identity when designing its 1922 emergency currency. The "Puppetry Series" is among the more deliberately regional notgeld issues from Thuringia — a calculated piece of local boosterism at a moment when hundreds of German municipalities were flooding the collector market with themed small-change notes to generate revenue beyond their face value.
Issue E is the fifth installment of this particular set, printed by Thüringische Verlagsanstalt in Jena. Collector-oriented notgeld of this period was frequently printed in numbered series precisely to encourage complete-set acquisition, and Sonneberg played that dynamic deliberately.