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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Altenburg (City of Altenburg, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | Orange and violet note with the same swirling leaf-pattern guilloche underprint at the sides. A central vignette in lithographic style shows three men in traditional Altenburg peasant costume — two in dark jackets and breeches, one in a white smock — standing together in conversation. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in large red and black numerals at lower left and right, flanking the caption text. The artist's monogram 'Pix' appears at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Schilles (Oberbürgermeister) and Schuhmacher (Bürgermeister) |
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Altenburg's 50 Pfennig Notgeld was printed by the Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik — a playing card manufacturer, not a security printer. The firm had the lithographic equipment and the local contract, and the results reflect that origin: technically competent colour work from a civilian trade press, issued under the twin signatures of both the Oberbürgermeister and Bürgermeister, an unusual dual-authority countersigning arrangement that reflects how seriously some municipalities treated even small-denomination emergency scrip.
Altenburg had been the centre of German playing card production since the early nineteenth century, and the Spielkartenfabrik's involvement in the 1921 Notgeld wave was entirely practical — the presses were already there.