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5 Mark - Altenburg
| Issuer | Altenburg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | Men05#349.24, Scheuch#97a |
| Obverse description | An armored equestrian figure, helmeted and in profile facing left, depicted at a canter occupying the central field of the coin. The rider is rendered in low relief in the style typical of Meissen porcelain notgeld. Flanking the lower field are two small decorative lightning-bolt or stylized sword motifs. The legend STADT ALTENBURG curves along the upper periphery in incuse Latin lettering, bordered by a milled rim. |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a large numeral '5' above the denomination legend MARK, separated by a horizontal rule, all contained within an arched cartouche with radiating fan ornaments to either side. The date '1921' is arranged in two staggered rows below the cartouche, with '1' and '1' on the outer flanks and '9' and '2' staggered beneath, flanked by symmetrical decorative fan motifs at the lower field. The whole is surrounded by a milled border. |
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Altenburg issued this porcelain notgeld piece during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I, when metal supplies remained under tight postwar restriction and municipal authorities across Thuringia turned to the Meissen and Rosenthal factories for emergency coinage. Brown-glazed porcelain pieces like this one were produced in relatively small quantities for actual circulation, unlike the later purely decorative issues made for collectors — a distinction that separates serious notgeld scholarship from the souvenir trade.
The Scheuch reference places this squarely among the documented Thuringian municipal issues, not a private fantasy piece.