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50 Pfennig Millennial Series - Issue 5: Heinrich II + Heinrich III
| Issuer | City of Allstedt (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#15.1-5/8 |
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| Reverse description | Brown-toned pictorial vignette signed by the artist Grimm, presenting a landscape view of Schloss Allstedt perched atop a wooded hill, rendered in a watercolour-style illustration. The castle complex, with its prominent tower at right, is framed by a decorative meander border. The town coat of arms appears in the lower-right corner, and a verse caption in Gothic script runs below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Schloss Allstedt Erbaut bin ich in alter Zeit und schaue in die Lande weit |
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Allstedt's claim to these two Heinrichs is legitimate: Heinrich II held court there repeatedly, and the town's imperial palace — the Pfalz Allstedt — was where Heinrich III was born in 1017. The choice of subject for a municipal notgeld series wasn't mere local pride; it was a deliberate assertion of historical weight by a small Thuringian town that genuinely had the medieval credentials to back it up.
A. Herrach in Bürgel printed the bulk of Thuringian notgeld during the early 1920s inflation period and brought consistent lithographic quality to the millennial series. The five-note set was designed for collectors as much as for circulation.