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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sonderburg, City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm reddish-brown tones with a heavily textured cross-hatched background. A central oval vignette presents a panoramic waterfront view of Sonderburg Castle set against a sky with wispy clouds. Immediately below the vignette, the municipal coat of arms — a blue shield with a castellated gate and three ornate towers — is set within a decorative scrollwork cartouche, flanked by the denomination inscription 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold Gothic script, with the numeral '50' in large grey-blue digits at each upper corner. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennig 50 |
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Sonderburg — Sønderborg in Danish — sat at the center of a genuine border dispute in 1919. The Schleswig plebiscites were still months away when this note was issued, meaning the city was printing emergency Kleingeld under German municipal authority while its own national future remained undecided. The first zone vote, held in February 1920, returned the northern region to Denmark; Sonderburg fell within that zone and was transferred in June 1920.
Notgeld from municipalities that ceased to be German within a year of issue have an obvious documentary interest that purely inflationary-era pieces lack.