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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss der Herrschaft Schmalkalden |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig nur innerhalb des Kreises Herrschaft Schmalkalden Fünfzig Pfennig Der Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden verpflichtet sich zur Einlösung dieser Scheines bis zum 30. September 1922 Schmalkalden, den 1. Juli 1921 Kreisausschuß Der Vorsitzende Gez. b. Kurt Jäckel. Druck von Feodor Wilisch Schmalkalden |
| Reverse description | Printed in brick-red and teal, the reverse is dominated by a central multicolour vignette of the Klosterkirche zu Herrenbergen church, rendered in a detailed line-art style against a cloudy sky. The flanking side panels carry ornamental guilloche-style scroll-work enclosing the numeral '50' on the left and the abbreviation 'Pfg' on the right. The issuer's name 'Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden' arches across the top border, and the church's name 'Klosterkirche zu Herrenbergen' is inscribed along the bottom border. |
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Schmalkalden is better remembered for the 1531 Protestant League than for its municipal finance, but this Notgeld issue from the Kreisausschuss — the district committee — reflects the hyperinflationary pressures grinding through Germany two years before the crisis peaked. Kurt Jäckel handled the design locally, and Feodor Wilisch, a Schmalkalden printer, produced the run in-house rather than contracting out to one of the larger Notgeld printers then churning through orders. That local production chain is the whole story here — small district, small printer, small denomination filling a gap the Reichsbank couldn't.