50 Pfennig Prinzenraub Series

Altenburg's 1921 Notgeld series takes its name from the Prinzenraub — the 1455 abduction of two Saxon princes, Ernst and Albrecht, from Altenburg Castle by the knight Kunz von Kauffungen. The episode was a genuine political crisis of the late Holy Roman Empire, not local folklore, and it left a deep enough mark that Altenburg claimed it as civic identity well into the twentieth century.

J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the inflation period, handling commissions from municipalities across southern and central Germany. The 50 Pfennig denomination sits at the lower end of the series, suggesting it was genuinely intended for small transaction use rather than purely collector issue.