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50 Pfennig Wachsenburg-Komitee
| Issuer | Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette illustrates the medieval legend of the bigamist Count of Gleichen, rendered in a dramatic woodcut-style illustration showing two women reclining in a canopied bed, framed by a black border. Flanking panels at left and right each contain a standing armoured knight bearing a heraldic shield charged with a cross. Denomination '50 Pfg.' appears in red panels at upper left and upper right, with issuer and validity inscriptions in Gothic blackletter script along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Veste Wachsenburg Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha Sage vom zwiebeweibten Grafen von Gleichen Gültig bis 31. Dez. 1921 (Translation: Voucher from the Veste Wachsenburg Wachsenburg Committee Gotha Legend of the bigamist Count of Gleichen Valid until December 31, 1921) |
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Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha issued this note as part of the broader German Notgeld phenomenon, but the specific issuing body is worth a moment's attention: the Komitee was a civic association tied to the Wachsenburg, one of the three hilltop castles of the Drei Gleichen group in Thuringia. Local cultural organizations, tourist associations, and monument committees frequently issued Notgeld in 1921 not out of monetary necessity — the acute shortage emergency of 1918–1919 had largely passed — but as deliberate collectibles sold to the growing market of Notgeld enthusiasts. Otto Böttner of Arnstadt printed extensively for Thuringian issuers during this period.