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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld note printed in brown and black with an ornate letterpress border of scroll and foliate guilloche motifs flanking a central oval cartouche. The cartouche bears the redemption pledge text in Gothic script, while the large denomination legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is set across the upper field in bold blackletter type. The lower margin carries the issue date, serial number, countersignature line, and printer's imprint, with the Kreisausschuss chairman's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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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 Nr. Kreisausschuß Der Vorsitzende Gez. b. Kurt Jäckel Druck von Feodor Wilisch Schmalkalden |
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Schmalkalden's Notgeld issues of 1921 are among the more self-consciously local of the German emergency currency wave — the Kreis Herrschaft (county lordship) designation itself reflects a medieval administrative title that survived, somewhat improbably, into the Weimar period. Feodor Wilisch was a local Schmalkalden printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly what the municipality could afford during the inflation spiral that was already accelerating by mid-1921.
Kurt Jäckel's signature appears as issuing authority countersignature. No co-signatory is recorded for this denomination.