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50 Pfennig Wachsenburg-Komitee
| Issuer | Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a view of Wachsenburg Castle atop a wooded hill, framed by two red Romanesque columns forming an archway, with two additional hilltop fortresses visible in the distant landscape. A heraldic shield bearing a rampant lion is positioned below the castle vignette. Denomination numeral '50' appears in red shield-shaped cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the inscriptions 'Die Wachsenburg' above and 'Drei Gleichen in Thüringen' along the lower red banner in Gothic blackletter script. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Wachsenburg 50 Drei Gleichen in Thüringen Druck Otto Böttner, Arnstadt gez. v. P. Bandorf |
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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.