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| Issuer | Kreisausschuss der Herrschaft Schmalkalden |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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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 Ges. v. Kurt Jäckel — Druck von Feodor Wilisch Schmalkalden |
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| Reverse lettering | WANDBILDER · AUS · DER · IWEINSAGE LUNETE REICHT IWEIN DEN ZAUBERRING ASKALON AUF DEM TOTENBETT IM · HESSENHOF · ZU · SCHMALKALDEN |
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Schmalkalden — a small Thuringian town far better known as the site of the 1531 Protestant defensive alliance than as a center of currency production — briefly became its own monetary authority during the Weimar inflation spiral. The Kreisausschuss, the district administrative committee of the Herrschaft Schmalkalden, issued this Notgeld through Feodor Wilisch, a local press with no particular banking pedigree. Designer Kurt Jäckel is credited, which was unusual enough for small-denomination emergency issues of this period that it suggests the district took some civic pride in the series.