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10 Pfennig Millennial Series - Issue 1: Müntzer
| Issuer | Stadt Allstedt (City of Allstedt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and red bicolor Notgeld note with a bold red border frame. At upper left, a woodcut-style vignette portrays Thomas Müntzer standing in a gothic archway, clad in a fur-trimmed cloak and holding a document, with a rural landscape visible behind him. To the right, the denomination and issuing authority are rendered in ornate Fraktur script, with a circular red wax-seal vignette bearing the city arms of Allstedt at centre. The issue date and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appear below in cursive script. |
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| Reverse description | Sepia-toned vignette printed within a decorative dark border with corner roundels. The central illustration, signed by artist Arno Grimm, portrays a turbulent scene of armed peasants storming and destroying the Mallerbach Chapel under the leadership of Thomas Müntzer, with billowing smoke rising behind the chapel tower. At lower right, the Allstedt city coat of arms is displayed on a heraldic cartouche. |
| Reverse lettering | Thomas Münzer zerstört mit den aufgewiegelten Bauern die Mallerbacher Kapelle Arno Grimm |
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