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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 110 × 69 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is a full-width multicolour vignette in a folk-art woodcut style, showing a rural outdoor scene in which a group of costumed figures dance in a ring on an open meadow, observed by a musician and other figures resting beside large trees at left and right. An inset rectangular vignette in the upper-left corner presents a panoramic view of the town of Kahla with its church and rooftops set amid wooded hillsides. A four-line folk-song verse in gothic script occupies the upper-right area. |
| Reverse lettering | Ei, da tanzt das Volk im Kreise Rondinella, rula _ Tanzt nach alter Weise Rondinella, rula. |
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Kahla is a small porcelain-manufacturing town on the Saale river in Thuringia, and its 1921 Notgeld issues reflect the broader municipal scramble for small change that gripped Germany as postwar inflation began eroding coin circulation. By 1921, the Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough — hoarding and metal arbitrage had stripped it out — leaving hundreds of small towns to commission their own emergency paper from regional printers.
C. Schröter of Leipzig was a workhorse of the Notgeld trade, handling commissions from numerous Thuringian municipalities during this period. The P#668.2A suffix indicates a variant within the Kahla series, distinguished from the .1 type by a printing detail rather than a design change.