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50 Pfennig Christmas Series
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | J. P. Himmer (Himmer GmbH Druckerei & Verlag), Augsburg, Germany (1842) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Kahla S.A. über 50 Verfallstag 31. Dezember 1921 Kahla, den 20. November 1921 Bürgermeister Stadtrat DRUCK: HIMMER, AUGSBURG. |
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Kahla's 1921 Christmas Notgeld series belongs to the final, self-consciously decorative phase of German emergency currency — issued not primarily for circulation but for the collector market that had emerged around Serienscheine by mid-1921. Municipalities across Thuringia exploited that market aggressively, and Kahla was no exception. J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was one of the more capable provincial printers working this trade, producing chromolithographic Notgeld for dozens of towns simultaneously.
The "Christmas Series" designation places this among thematic sets timed for seasonal sale, a practice that blurred the line between municipal finance and printed ephemera almost entirely by late 1921.