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50 Pfennig Leuchtenburg - Issue 3D: Ehrenburg Plaue
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 107 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse description | Colourful letterpress vignette framed by an ornamental border of fir branches with red pine cones in each corner. At centre, the Thuringian heraldic shield in blue and white bears a red and white striped lion passant; flanking the shield are large Gothic numeral '50' denominators left and right. A small rectangular vignette at the lower centre shows a distant view of Leuchtenburg castle on its hilltop. Issue date 'Leuchtenburg-Saale, 15 Juni 1921' and the manuscript signature of the Burgwirt Georg Ohage appear at lower right. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Kahla's third Leuchtenburg issue is one of a cluster of Thuringian notgeld series that used local castle imagery as a vehicle for what amounted to collector-driven printing — by 1921, municipalities knew full well that most of these small-denomination pieces would never see a cash register. The Ehrenburg at Plaue, a Renaissance palace on the Regnitz, is a reasonable geographic stretch for a Kahla issue, which sits some distance away in the Saale valley.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg printed a substantial volume of notgeld for various German municipalities during this period. The watermarked paper is one of the few concessions to genuine currency practice in a series that was largely a philatelic enterprise from the outset.