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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg zum Bau der Krieger-Gedenkstätte auf der Leuchtenburg bei Kahla, S.-A.: Das Blut aller derer, die im Glauben an des Vaterlandes Größe freudig ihr Leben hingegeben haben, darf nicht umsonst geflossen sein! von Hindenburg Das Land Altenburg errichtet für seine 6600 Gefallenen auf der Leuchtenburg einen Ehrenbau. Bürgermeister Stadtrat J.P. HIMMER AUGSBURG |
| Reverse description | The reverse is occupied entirely by a halftone aerial-photograph vignette of Leuchtenburg castle, rendered in black on a plain light ground, showing the hilltop fortress complex with its prominent round tower surrounded by multi-storey white-rendered buildings and wooded slopes. A caption in italic letterpress at the lower centre of the vignette reads "Fliegeraufnahme der Leuchtenburg". |
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Kahla is a small porcelain-manufacturing town on the Saale river in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These small-denomination emergency notes were a local administrative response to a national problem — the hoarding and melting of metal coinage left everyday transactions impossible without paper substitutes at the pfennig level.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling commissions from municipalities across southern and central Germany during this period. The Augsburg address is the press location, not a detail of the issuing authority.