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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden (District of Schmalkalden) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on cream-toned paper with a decorative letterpress border of interlaced geometric and foliate ornaments in brown and ochre. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper portion, flanked on either side by ornamental vignettes enclosing hourglass motifs. A central oval cartouche carries the redemption pledge text, dated Schmalkalden, 1 July 1921, with a manuscript signature of the Kreisausschuss chairman to the lower right and a serial number to the lower left; the printer's credit 'Ges. b. Kurt Jäckel · Druck von · Feodor Wilisch Schmalkalden' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig nur innerhalb des Kreises Herrschaft Schmalkalden Fünfzig Pfennig Der Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden verpflichtet sich zur Einlösung dieses Scheines bis zum 30. September 1922 Schmalkalden, den 1. Juli 1921 Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden Kreisausschuß Der Vorsitzende Ges. b. Kurt Jäckel · Druck von · Feodor Wilisch Schmalkalden |
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Schmalkalden is better known to historians as the site of the 1531 Protestant defensive league than as a note-issuing authority, but in 1921 the district was doing what hundreds of German municipalities were forced to do: printing its own fractional currency because the Reichsbank simply could not produce small-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand. This Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — was a practical stopgap, not a monetary experiment.
Feodor Wilisch was a local Schmalkalden printer, meaning production and distribution were genuinely regional. Kurt Jäckel's design credit is unusually specific for notgeld of this type and period.