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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Herrschaft Schmalkalden |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in graduated brown tones on smooth white paper, the obverse centres on a decorative panoply with flanking cartouche buckles and typeset text in black. The serial number is rendered in black using a raster pattern. The overall layout follows a letterpress format typical of German Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. |
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| Protection description | Flämmchen (Keller#190) |
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Schmalkalden carries outsized historical weight for a small Thuringian town — it gave its name to the Schmalkaldic League of 1531 and to Luther's Articles of 1536. Whether the local Kreisausschuss leaned into that identity for this Notgeld issue is a reasonable question. Feodor Wilisch was a local press, and using a hometown printer for emergency small-change notes was entirely typical of the 1921 inflation period, when municipal and district bodies across Germany were churning out Kleingeldersatz by the thousands.
Kurt Jäckel's engraving credit is the one detail worth noting — named engravers on Notgeld of this class are uncommon.