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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Sondershausen (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld note with ornate floral border. Central vignette shows the Konzerthalle im Loh, a neoclassical concert hall set against a wooded background, captioned below. To the right, a portrait bust of Carl Corbach is rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right. Lower portion carries the serial number with prefix 'D', the issue inscription 'Ausgegeben Pfingsten 1921. 1. Thür. Musikfest.' and the authorization line 'Der Magistrat:' with a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | Schöpfer und Erhalter der Lohkonzerte Günth. Friedr. Carl I. Günth. Friedr. Carl II Karl Günther Dieser Gutschein erlischt 3 Monate nach Aufruf. 50 Pf. Schedensach 21 |
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Sondershausen's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point the Reichsbank had largely accepted that towns would keep printing their own small denominations, and the Magistrat here commissioned a locally designed series rather than sourcing a generic printed sheet from one of the larger printers. F. Mengt, whose name appears on the design credit, was almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than a professional note engraver, which accounts for the regional character of the imagery.
The Schwarzburg-Sondershausen principality had only been absorbed into Thuringia two years earlier, in 1920.