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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Sondershausen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Three portrait medallions set within laurel wreaths: Günth. Friedr. Carl I at left in profile, Günth. Friedr. Carl II at centre under a crown motif flanked by putti, and Karl Günther at right. A lyre vignette appears below the central portrait. Denomination panels of 50 Pf. at upper left and right corners. |
| 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. SCHEDENBACH 21 Letter A |
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Sondershausen was the capital of the tiny former principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, absorbed into Thuringia only in 1920 — meaning this Notgeld issue came from a municipal authority that had existed as an independent administrative unit for less than a year. The town printed its own emergency scrip rather than wait on a central supply that never reliably arrived.
Schedenbach's engraving work appears across several Thuringian Notgeld issues of this period; the collaboration with local designer F. Menge was typical of how smaller municipalities kept production costs down while maintaining a degree of visual distinction from generic inflationary scrip.