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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Sonderburg (City of Sonderburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-grey underprint with a central oval vignette enclosed by a green laurel wreath, presenting a silhouette landscape of the Dybbøl Mølle windmill against a warm ochre sky with stylised clouds; the oval is pierced vertically by a drawn sword, hilt uppermost and point downward. Bilingual German and Danish text flanks the upper portion, stating the note's validity conditions, while below the vignette four facsimile manuscript signatures appear over the issuing authority lines 'Der Magistrat / Magistraten' and 'Das Stadtverordneten-Kollegium – Byraadet'. The date 'Sonderburg den 20. März 1920' and a red serial number box are positioned at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome architectural vignette of the Sonderburg Rathaus rendered in an engraving style against a light blue sky with cloud wash; the stepped gabled façade with central clock tower is flanked by adjacent historic buildings. The denomination '50 Pf' appears in large script at the upper left, with the city arms — a white castle with three towers on a blue field — displayed in the upper right corner. The legend 'STADT: SONDERBURG' runs in bold Gothic script along the lower margin, with the designer's signature 'J. Raben' at the lower left. |
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Sonderburg — today Sønderborg, in southern Denmark — had been German territory since the Second Schleswig War of 1864, but by 1920 the town sat at the epicenter of the plebiscite dividing Schleswig between Germany and Denmark. This note was issued in February 1920, the same year the vote was held; Zone 1, which included Sonderburg, voted to return to Denmark in March. The city changed hands in May. Notgeld issued here in that window carries a political charge no equivalent German municipal emergency note can match.
Four signatories across two civic bodies — the Magistrat and the Stadtverordneten-Kollegium — is a notably formal authentication arrangement for small-denomination Kleingeldscheine, suggesting the local administration was still performing institutional normalcy even as the town's national identity was being decided by referendum.