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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | E. Nister, Nürnberg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a crowned female saint in red robes holding a cross and heraldic shield, set within a Gothic arch flanked by large blue denomination numerals '50' and red 'PFENNIG' panels. Serial number in red at lower left, with two manuscript signatures below the validity text. |
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| Reverse description | Three coloured vignettes present local scenes: period figures before a half-timbered building at left, a horse-drawn hay cart in an old town street at centre captioned 'Altes oberes Tor', and a drummer before a church at right. Bold red Gothic lettering at base reads 'NOTGELD der STADT KAHLA / THÜR' with year '1921'. |
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Kahla is a small Saale valley town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the hyperinflationary pressure of 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to plug the coin shortage that had made fractional currency effectively unusable. E. Nister in Nürnberg was a well-established commercial printer with a long history in illustrated publishing, pressed into notgeld work by sheer volume of municipal demand during this period.
The April 1945 print date in the metadata is almost certainly a cataloging or data entry error — this is a 1921 notgeld issue, and E. Nister was not operating in any normal capacity in the final days of the Third Reich.