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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Sondershausen (City of Sondershausen, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same dark red and green colour scheme, with a central rectangular vignette of the Possen Tower (Possenturm) rising above a wooded landscape, captioned 'Possenturm' beneath the image and initialled 'F.M.' in the upper right corner of the vignette. On either side, the denomination '10 Pfennig' appears in bold Gothic type within panels adorned with arabesque ornaments and rows of circles. The lower margin carries the issuance legend 'Ausgegeben im Jahre 1921' spanning the full width of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig 10 Pfennig Possenturm Ausgegeben im Jahre 1921 F.M. |
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Sondershausen notgeld from 1921 falls into the second wave of German municipal emergency money — issued not from genuine coin shortages, as in 1914–1918, but because the Reichsbank was struggling to keep small denominations in circulation amid accelerating inflation. By this point, hundreds of Thuringian towns were printing their own 10 and 50 Pfennig notes, and the series had become semi-collectible almost immediately, with some municipalities openly printing surplus runs for the philatelic trade.
Sondershausen was the former residence of the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen principality, absorbed into Thuringia in 1920 — barely a year before this note was printed.