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25 Pfennig Economics Series - B
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31.12.1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | Was das Schicksal uns zerbrach, neu erstehe nach und nach – Traget Steine zu dem Bau, deutscher Mann und deutsche Frau Gutschein über 25 Kahla S/A den 15. Okt. 1921. Bürgermstr. Stadtvat. Verfalltag 31. Dez. 1921. J. A. Himmer-Augsburg |
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| Reverse lettering | Deutsche Wirtschaftskurven. Milchpreise (amtl.) am 13. April 1921 je Liter Pfg. Butterpreise (amtl.) am 13. April 1921 je kg Mk. Eierpreise am 13. April 1921 je Stück Pfg. Frankfurt a. M. Berlin Köln Aachen Dresden Breslau Karlsruhe Hamburg Hannover München Stuttgart Königsberg |
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Kahla's 1921 Notgeld series belongs to the so-called "Serienscheine" boom, when hundreds of German municipalities issued collector-oriented small-change notes to profit from the philatelic market as much as to address the chronic coin shortage of the early Weimar period. J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was one of the more prolific printers feeding that market, supplying thematic sets to towns across Thuringia and Bavaria simultaneously.
The "Economics Series" designation suggests a didactic theme common to Kahla issues of this period — the town was already well established as a center of porcelain manufacturing, a trade that survived the inflation years better than most local industries.