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50 Pfennig Puppetry Series - Issue F
| Issuer | Sonneberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark green, black, and red, centred on a theatrical stage vignette set within a deep arched proscenium flanked by columns. The central scene, rendered in an Expressionist woodcut style, shows the giant puppet figure of Gulliver bent over smaller puppet characters on a stage floor with a red footlight strip; a small female puppet in a red dress stands to the left. The denomination '50' appears in red in both upper corners, with 'Pfg' in large red Gothic letters at the lower left and right. The header inscription 'Im Musterzimmer F Zimmer' runs across the top in Gothic script, and a four-line rhyming verse in German dialect is set in a green panel across the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Im Musterzimmer F Zimmer 50 Pfg Bis endlich kümmt de Gulliver zu G'sicht, Da macht gleich Ruh und a End dare G'schicht. |
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Sonneberg's identity as Germany's toymaking capital — responsible for a significant share of the world's dolls and puppets before 1914 — gave local officials an obvious visual language when designing this notgeld series. The Puppetry Series is among the more coherent thematic emissions from Thuringia's 1922 output, where most towns were simply filling paper with whatever local imagery came to hand.
Thüringische Verlagsanstalt in Jena handled a substantial volume of Thuringian notgeld printing that year, which occasionally shows in registration inconsistencies across the series. Issue F is the final piece in a six-part set, meaning complete runs are harder to assemble than the individual notes suggest.