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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bad Sooden an der Werra |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper border carries the town name in ornate black-letter script on a grey-green ground, while the lower border bears the denomination in the same Fraktur style. The central field, printed in terracotta and ochre tones, presents the municipal coat of arms of Bad Sooden — a shield dated 1559 charged with crossed implements and the initial S — flanked on each side by a suspended balance scale enclosed within stylised cartouche panels bearing the numeral 50. Signature panels for the Gemeindekaße and the Bürgermeister appear to either side of the shield, each carrying a manuscript facsimile signature, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Sooden a. d. Werra 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Die Gemeindekaße: Der Bürgermeister: 1559 DRUCK: A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG/ALLGÄU. |
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Bad Sooden an der Werra was a small saltworks spa town in Hesse-Nassau, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small change — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the chronic coin shortage that had persisted since the war. The printer, A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, was a regional jobbing house in the Allgäu that produced Notgeld for numerous municipalities well outside its immediate area, a common arrangement when local print capacity was overwhelmed by demand.
The town formally became Bad Sooden-Allendorf only in 1929, following municipal consolidation with neighboring Allendorf.