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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kahla (City of Kahla), Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Landscape-format notgeld note framed by an ornate letterpress border of engraved ivy and oak foliage on all four sides. The denomination and issuer legend '25 Pfg. Gutschein der Stadt Kahla S.A.' appears in bold Gothic blackletter at the upper margin, with a dedication line beneath; the central field carries a facsimile handwritten quotation attributed to von Hindenburg in flowing script on a pale ground, with a red serial number at the upper right. The lower margin bears the issue and expiry dates in letterpress, with two manuscript signatures above the printed titles Bürgermeister and Stadtrat. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by a finely executed line-engraved panoramic vignette of Leuchtenburg castle near Kahla, set against rolling Thuringian hills and dense woodland as seen from a slightly elevated vantage point. The municipal coat of arms — a red shield charged with six white stars — is printed in red and black at the upper centre, flanked by ivy branches continuous with the foliate border framing the composition. A Gothic blackletter cartouche at the foot of the vignette bears the place name 'Leuchtenburg bei Kahla'. |
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Kahla is a small Thuringian porcelain town, and the choice of C. Schröter in Leipzig as printer was typical for municipal Notgeld of this wave — dozens of Thuringian communes used the same firm during the 1921 small-change crisis, when coin shortages prompted a flood of locally issued emergency scrip across Germany. The Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the inclination to supply sufficient low-denomination coinage fast enough.
The suffix designation in the reference number — "6d-1/3" — suggests this belongs to a multi-variant set, meaning Kahla issued this denomination in at least three distinguishable forms, differentiated by serial placement, color, or overprint detail.