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50 Pfennig - Sonneberg
| Issuer | Sonneberg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A beaded border frames the entire design. At center, the municipal coat of arms of Sonneberg is depicted, featuring a rampant lion within a shield, surmounted by a laurel wreath. The circular legend reading STADT SONNEBERG (THÜR.) runs along the periphery, with the date 1921 positioned in the lower field beneath the shield, rendered in a Gothic-influenced script. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sonneberg issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1921 as the postwar economic collapse rendered Imperial-era silver coinage functionally absent from everyday transactions. Thuringia's toy-manufacturing towns — Sonneberg chief among them — relied heavily on small-denomination emergency issues to pay workers in an industry that had already been gutted by the loss of export markets during the war years.
The Funck 511.3 designation places this among the documented series variants, suggesting multiple dies or issue runs from the municipality.