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50 Pfennig Wachsenburg-Komitee
| Uitgever | Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha |
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| Jaar | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is printed in black and red on a cream ground, with a large central vignette illustrating the 1451 siege of Wachsenburg castle: a column of medieval soldiers bearing a red banner with a wheel device advances toward the hilltop fortress, with cannon and cannonballs in the foreground. Flanking the central scene are two narrow vertical panels — the left enclosing crossed weapons with a shield and helmet, the right a suit of armour with crossed swords — both rendered in red and black. Denomination tablets reading '50 Pfg.' appear at the upper corners, with the issuer and validity inscriptions arranged in red-bordered cartouches along the top and bottom margins. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Gutschein der Veste Wachsenburg Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha Belagerung d. Wachsenburg durch Erfurter u. Mühlhäuser Bürger 1451 Gültig bis 31. Dez. 1921 (Translation: Voucher from the Veste Wachsenburg Wachsenburg Committee Gotha Siege of the Wachsenburg by Erfurt and Mühlhausen citizens 1451 Valid until December 31, 1921) |
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| Opmerkingen |
Notgeld issued by the Wachsenburg-Komitee — the committee overseeing the medieval Wachsenburg castle complex in the Thuringian hills near Gotha — belongs to the decorative wave of 1921 collector-oriented emergency money, when German municipalities and local bodies had long since recognized that philatelists and notaphilists were snapping up attractive issues before they ever reached a cash register. The Komitee had an obvious motivation: selling notes that would never return for redemption generated direct revenue for castle maintenance.
Otto Böttner of Arnstadt was a regional printer active across multiple Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period, and P. Bandorf's design credit is unusually specific for a local issue of this scale — suggesting the committee took some care with the commission.