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50 Pfennig Günther von Schwarzburg Series
| Issuer | Bad Blankenburg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 105 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Blankenburg Thür. Wald Die deutschen Fürsten stehen zu Kaiser Günther. Notgeld über Fünfzig Pfennig Bad Blankenburg, den 23.7.21. No Der Stadtrat Dr. jur. E. Moenich WIEDEMANNSCHE DRUCKEREI A.-G. SAALFELD i.THÜR. |
| Reverse description | Central vignette in yellow and grey-green tones illustrates an armoured knight on horseback, identified as Kaiser Günther von Schwarzburg, with Burg Greifenstein castle rendered in the upper right background against a golden sky. Ornamental side borders in dark brown feature stylised geometric and foliate motifs, with the denomination "50" set within oval cartouches on both flanks. The inscription at upper right identifies the castle as the ancestral seat of Kaiser Günther. |
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Bad Blankenburg's 1921 notgeld series takes its name from Günther von Schwarzburg, the anti-king elected by dissident German princes in 1349 as a rival to Charles IV — a brief, failed bid for the imperial throne that ended with Günther's death, possibly by poison, just months after his election. The Schwarzburg dynasty itself held Bad Blankenburg and the surrounding region for centuries, which gives the naming choice genuine local resonance rather than decorative medievalism.
Wiedemannsche Druckerei in Saalfeld produced a substantial volume of Thuringian municipal notgeld during the inflation period. The DeNG reference indicates two known variants within this denomination.