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75 Pfennig Notgeld Exhibition 1921
| Issuer | Stadtverkehrs-Amt Kahla (City Traffic Office of Kahla), Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow letterpress vignette on cream paper, framed by a decorative border of repeated small ornaments. The central composition shows a theatrical stage scene with drawn blue curtains parted to reveal three figures in period dress, viewed from behind and in profile, gathered before an oval cartouche suspended from above bearing the exhibition announcement text. Denomination numerals '75' appear in large white digits at upper left and upper right within the curtain folds; the issuing authority legend and two signature boxes with a serial number appear to the lower right, with the validity clause printed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | DAS NOTGELD DES NOTGELDS AN DER SAALE HELLEM STRANDE NOTGELD FLIEGT – EIN GANZES HEER – WENN DIE WERTE – AUCH VERFALLEN; FREUT SICH DOCH DER SAMMLER SEHR. 75 Pfennig |
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Kahla's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the later wave of German emergency money — the so-called "Serienscheine" produced not from genuine monetary necessity but for the collector market. By 1921 the acute coin shortage of 1919–1920 had largely eased, and municipalities had discovered that attractive, thematically designed small notes sold briskly to philatelic dealers and tourists. The Stadtverkehrs-Amt was an unusual issuing body for such a note — traffic offices rarely appear as the authorizing entity, suggesting this was tied to a specific local exhibition or event rather than general municipal circulation.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a prolific printer of Serienscheine during this period, producing runs for dozens of small German towns. Their involvement here is commercially unremarkable, but confirms the note was a planned print run rather than an improvised issue.