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50 Pfennig Wachsenburg-Komitee
| Issuer | Wachsenburg-Komitee Gotha |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a polychrome architectural vignette framed by two red stone columns supporting a rounded arch, through which the Wachsenburg castle is seen rising above wooded hills under an open sky. Red shield-shaped panels at upper left and right each bear the numeral '50' in white, flanking the Gothic inscription 'Die Wachsenburg' at the arch apex. In the lower foreground, the heraldic shield of the Drei Gleichen district — a red and white lion on a divided field — is centered above a red banner bearing the legend 'Drei Gleichen in Thüringen' in Gothic lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Wachsenburg 50 50 Drei Gleichen in Thüringen Druck Otto Böttner, Arnstadt gez. v. P. Bandorf |
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The Wachsenburg is a medieval hill castle in Thuringia, one of three fortresses collectively known as the "Drei Gleichen." The Wachsenburg-Komitee was a civic body managing the castle's preservation and tourism, and like hundreds of similar German local institutions in 1921, it issued notgeld partly to fund operations and partly to satisfy a collector market that had developed an almost industrial appetite for regional emergency currency by that point in the notgeld boom.
Otto Böttner of Arnstadt was a regional printer who handled several Thuringian notgeld commissions during this period. Designer P. Bandorf is otherwise obscure — the credit appears in the margins but little else is documented about him.