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50 Pfennig Prinzenraub Series
| Issuer | Stadt Altenburg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Altenburg 50 Pf. Ausgegeben: 1921. Dieser Schein verliert die Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Aufruf. DRUCK: J. A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG i. ALLGÄU Schiller Oberbürgermstr. |
| Reverse description | Central rectangular vignette in woodcut style illustrating an armoured knight holding the young Prince Ernst, a scene referencing the historic Prinzenraub (abduction of the princes) of 1455; a second smaller figure is visible in the background. Flanking text panels in Gothic script recount the historical episode, with the date '11. Juli 1455' at lower left and '1455.' at lower right. The denomination '50' in large red Gothic numerals appears at all four corners, with 'Pfg.' in red at the upper corners, and the series title 'Prinzenraub.' inscribed along the lower margin; the heading 'Sächs.' appears at the top centre. |
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Altenburg's 1921 notgeld series takes its name from the Prinzenraub — the 1455 abduction of two Saxon princes by the knight Kunz von Kaufungen, a crime that ended on Altenburger soil when Kaufungen was captured and beheaded within the day. The town leaned hard into that story during the notgeld boom, and the Schwarz printing house in Lindenberg im Allgäu — a firm that handled a substantial volume of southern German notgeld commissions — produced this series to meet it.
The 50 Pfennig denomination sits in the middle of the series, catalogued under DeNG 1/2#21.1 (5).