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50 Pfennig History Series - Issue 6
| Issuer | Schalkau (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Schalkau/Thür. verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Okt. 1921 428288 Bürgermeisteramt |
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| Reverse lettering | Wo Menschen schweigen reden die Steine Wo Gold nicht gewachsen wachsen jetzt Scheine |
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Schalkau is a small town in southern Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own Kleingeldscheine during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I. The "History Series" format — multiple notes in a thematic set, each illustrating a different episode of local or regional history — was a deliberate civic choice, used by issuers who wanted collectibility to drive retention and reduce redemption costs. It worked: series notes were widely hoarded, which is precisely why so many survive in uncirculated condition.
Issue 6 of 6 completes the set. The print date of 30 April 1945 in the reference data is almost certainly a cataloging artifact or transcription error — 1921 Notgeld was not being printed on the day Hitler died in Berlin.