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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Kahla (City Council of Kahla, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a letterpress vignette in green and black of Leuchtenburg castle rising above a wooded hillside, rendered in fine line engraving. The castle name appears in green script at the upper right of the vignette. At the base of the composition, two dark panels each carry the denomination numeral '5' in green, flanking a central inscription panel with the year of issue. |
| Reverse lettering | Leuchtenburg 5 5 Ausgegeben im Jahre 1921. |
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Kahla is a small porcelain-manufacturing town on the Saale River in Thuringia, and its 1921 Kleingeldersatzschein belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money printed across Germany and Austria as chronic small-coin shortages bit hard in the postwar years. Thousands of German municipalities issued their own Notgeld during this period, and Kahla's entry is unremarkable in that company — a minor council note covering the most basic denomination gap.
Paper Notgeld at 5 Pfennig was the floor of practical utility. Below this, issuance costs exceeded face value.