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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Feodor Wilisch, Schmalkalden, Germany |
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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 Kreiausschuß Der Vorsitzende Ges. v. Kurt-Jäckel. Druck von Feodor Wilisch-Schmalkalden |
| Reverse description | Tan and blue letterpress vignette centred on a half-length portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous in Renaissance dress, rendered in a bold woodcut-style engraving against a solid blue ground, with his name arched above the figure. Flanking the central vignette are two decorative panels bearing the numeral '50' within a circle at left and the abbreviation 'Pfg.' within an ornamental cartouche at right, both enclosed by guilloche-style borders. The issuer name 'Kreis-Herrschaft-Schmalkalden' runs across the top and the legend 'Schmalkalder Bund 1530–1537' along the bottom. |
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Schmalkalden had something of a notgeld tradition worth noting: the town was home to Feodor Wilisch, a local printer who supplied emergency currency to multiple issuers across the Herrschaft rather than relying on the Leipzig or Berlin trade printers that dominated the larger series. This note is therefore both issued by and produced within the same small district — an unusual degree of local self-sufficiency in a period when most Kleingeldersatz was farmed out.
Kurt Jäckel's involvement as designer is documented but his wider career is thin in the record. The 1921 date places this in the second wave of German notgeld, after the initial postwar chaos but well before hyperinflation made small-denomination paper truly worthless.