A499
P:S781
1 thaler
1854
132 x 83 mm *1
A501
P:S782
5 thalers
1854
A502
P:S783
10 thalers
1855
Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
REFERENCE: Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (German Schwarzburg-Sondershausen) - German county since 1643, then (in 1697-1909) the imperial principality of the sovereign house of Schwarzburg. The capital is the city of Sondershausen. The population - at the beginning of the 20th century was about 80 thousand people living in 9 cities, 84 communes. The vast majority of the inhabitants were Protestants.
Geographically, the principality consisted of two separate parts: located in the Thuringian forest of Obergerschaft (342.9 km ², 50.9% of the population) and surrounded by the territory of the Prussian province of Saxony Untergerschaft (519 km ², 49.1% of the population). Obergerschaft consisted of two counties and three small lots, separated from each other by the lands of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Gotha and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Untergershaft consisted of one continuous district Sondershausen. It was irrigated by the rivers Elba, Wipper with Bebra, Hero with Spring.
cat. # PR
cat. # P
face value
year
Description/Notes
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REVERSE
Kassenanweisung 1854-55
A499
P:S781
1 thaler
1854
132 x 83 mm *1
A501
P:S782
5 thalers
1854
A502
P:S783
10 thalers
1855
Issue 1859
A503
P:S784
1 thaler
1859
111 x 76 mm *1
Issue 1866
A504
P:S785
1 thaler
1866
110 x 76 mm *1
Issue 1856
Theodor Boesche, Berlin
A505
P:S788
20 thalers
1856
147 x 100 mm *1
Issue 1870
Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig
A506
P:S789
20 thalers
1870
143 x 93 mm *1
REVERSE
Fürstentum Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen 1 Thaler 1854
Notes:
1. * 1 - Photo of a banknote from the Deutsche Bundesbank collection, Frankfurt am Main. © Copyright Numismatische Sammlung der Deutschen Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main.
