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50 Pfennig History Series - Issue 3
| Issuer | Schalkau (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 October 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Schalkau/Thür. verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Okt. 1921 Bürgermeisteramt |
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| Reverse lettering | Als Kaiser Rotbart lobesam Zum heilgen Land gezogen kam, Da war auch bei dem frommen Heer Ein Ahnherr unsrer Schaumburger. |
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Schalkau is a small town in the Sonneberg district of Thuringia, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar period. The "History Series" designation indicates these notes were part of a themed pictorial set, a common marketing tactic among Notgeld issuers who recognized that collectors were actively hoarding attractive issues, which paradoxically meant the notes rarely circulated at all.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in the reference data almost certainly reflects a catalog or database entry error — that date falls on the final day of the Third Reich, entirely incompatible with a 1921 municipal issue. The actual printing would have occurred in 1921.