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50 Pfennig Leuchtenburg - Issue 3C: Burg Lauenstein
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | P#GRM:665 |
| Obverse description | Polychrome Notgeld vignette framed by an elaborate border of illustrated conifer branches with red pine cones. At centre, the Thuringian heraldic lion passant on a blue shield; flanking the shield, large Gothic numeral '50' appears twice. Below the shield, a small landscape vignette of Leuchtenburg castle is set into the lower margin. Handwritten date '15 Juni 1921' and the signature of the Burgwirt Georg Okage appear at lower right, alongside the issuing authority text. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Kahla's third Leuchtenburg notgeld series shows the municipality cycling through the local medieval inventory — Burg Lauenstein, a hilltop fortress in the Frankenwald, sits well outside Kahla's immediate district, which made its appearance here mildly contentious among collectors who expect stricter geographic logic from civic issues. Himmer in Augsburg was a reliable workhorse printer for southern German notgeld runs, and the watermarked paper on this issue was a modest security gesture in a period when forgery of small-denomination emergency currency was largely not worth the effort anyway.