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50 Pfennig Millennial Series - Issue 8: Heinrich VI + Philipp
| Issuer | City of Allstedt (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE TAUSENDJÄHRIGE STADT Die HERREN der Pfalz Allstedt Notgeld der Stadt Allstedt 50 Pf Allstedt 31 Oktober 1921 Der Stadtgemeindevorstland Bürgermeister HEINRICH VI 1190–1197 PHILIPP 1197–1208 WER DIE KUNST DES SCHWEIGENS NICHT VERSTEHT, DER WEISS AUCH NICHT ZUR RECHTEN ZEIT ZU REDEN WAS ÜBEL BEGONNEN, NICHT SCHEU ES ZU ÄNDERN |
| Reverse description | Brown-toned vignette printed in a warm sepia palette, enclosed within a decorative geometric meander border. The central scene reproduces a view of the Kolsnetor (town gate) of Allstedt based on a drawing by Goethe, rendered in a loose landscape style and signed "Arno Grimm" at lower right; a half-timbered house and a round gate tower with archway are set against a clouded sky. In the lower-left corner the city arms of Allstedt appear as a heraldic shield with a wild-man supporter, and a two-line verse in Gothic script is printed beneath the vignette. |
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Allstedt's Millennial Series was issued to mark the thousandth anniversary of the town's founding, a date tied to a royal court held there in 921 when Henry I received submission from the Frankish and Saxon nobles. The series ran to eight notes, and this final pairing closes a deliberate dynastic arc across the full set — Heinrich VI was the last Hohenstaufen emperor to hold undivided power; Philipp of Swabia, murdered in 1208, was his son and the first German king to be assassinated.
Notgeld of this commemorative type was printed largely for collectors from the outset, and the Allstedt series circulated very little in practice.