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50 Pfennig Prinzenraub Series
| Issuer | Stadt Altenburg (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 100 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Stadt Altenburg 50 Pf. Pf. Ausgegeben: 1921. Dieser Schein ver= liert die Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Aufruf. DRUCK: J. A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG × ALLGÄU Schiller Oberbürgermstr. |
| Reverse description | A central rectangular vignette in woodcut style illustrates the Saxon Princes' Abduction (Sächsischer Prinzenraub) of 1455, in which two armoured knights carry off a young prince, rendered in red, grey, and ochre tones. The denomination '50' appears in large red script at all four corners, with 'Pfennig' in red italics at upper left and upper right, while flanking text cartouches with red borders narrate the historical episode. The caption 'Sächs. Prinzenraub.' is set in Gothic script along the lower border, and the artist's monogram 'Pix' appears at lower left within the vignette. |
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Altenburg's 1921 Notgeld series takes its name from the Prinzenraub — the 1455 abduction of the Saxon princes Ernst and Albrecht from Altenburg Castle by the knight Kunz von Kaufungen, one of the more dramatic episodes in late medieval German dynastic history. The city leaned heavily into this local legend during the Notgeld boom, when municipalities across Weimar Germany competed to issue collectable pictorial emergency currency rather than purely functional small change.
J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu printed a substantial volume of Notgeld for various German municipalities during this period, and the production quality here reflects that commercial specialization.