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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Sondershausen (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green and dark blue reverse centred on three portrait medallions set within laurel wreaths: at left a profile bust inscribed 'Günthr. Friedr. Carl I.', at centre a facing portrait inscribed 'Günthr. Friedr. Carl II' surmounted by a princely crown flanked by two putti, and at right a profile bust inscribed 'Karl Günther'. A scroll banner above reads 'Schöpfer und Erhalter der Lohkonzerte', and a lyre motif appears below the central medallion. The lower margin carries the redemption clause 'Dieser Gutschein erlischt 3 Monate nach Aufruf.' with the engraver's signature 'Schedensack 21' at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Schöpfer und Erhalter der Lohkonzerte Günthr. Friedr. Carl I. Günthr. Friedr. Carl II Karl Günther Dieser Gutschein erlischt 3 Monate nach Aufruf. |
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Sondershausen's 1921 Notgeld issue was part of the vast wave of municipal emergency currency produced across Germany as chronic small-coin shortages and post-war inflation made official fractional coinage functionally useless. The city, seat of the former Schwarzburg-Sondershausen principality, issued through its local authority rather than through any banking institution — a common arrangement in Thuringian towns of this size.
The Schedensack engraving credit is local work, and F. Menge's design places this firmly within the artistically ambitious end of German Notgeld production, where municipalities often treated the notes as collector bait as much as functional currency.