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50 Pfennig Spielvereinigung Jena 08
| Issuer | Spielvereinigung Jena 08 e.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | J. P. Himmer (Himmer GmbH Druckerei & Verlag), Augsburg, Germany (1842) |
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| Obverse description | Black and green letterpress note with a central circular vignette bearing the club monogram 'SV' in green on a light ground, surrounded by a decorative wreath of oak leaves in green underprint. Two scrolled ribbon banners flank the central device, bearing the issuer name 'Spielvereinigung Jena 08 e.V.' at top, with the denomination numeral '50' in large Gothic type at each upper corner above the inscription 'Pfe.' A lower banner cartouche carries the voucher legend 'Gutschein über ½ Mark', below which text states validity at all club events until 31 December 1921. Three manuscript signatures with printed titles — 1. Vorsitzender, 1. Schriftführer, and 1. Kassierer — appear at the foot alongside a serial number, with the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer Augsburg' at the very base. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Diskus-Werfer der Spielvereinigung Jena 08 E.V. |
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Spielvereinigung Jena 08 was a sports club, not a bank — which is precisely why this note exists. During the hyperinflationary spiral of 1921, German municipalities, businesses, guilds, and civic associations of every description were authorized under emergency provisions to issue Notgeld to relieve the chronic shortage of small change. A football and athletics club issuing currency was unremarkable at the time; hundreds of similarly improbable entities did the same.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg printed enormous quantities of Notgeld for issuers across Germany during this period, making them one of the more prolific emergency-currency printers of the era. Attribution to Himmer is therefore reliable but carries no particular prestige — they were essentially a high-volume job printer filling a national administrative gap.