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75 Pfennig Schachklub Kahla - Issue 1
| Issuer | Schachklub Kahla (Chess Club Kahla) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with chequered border; upper and lower registers carry rows of chess piece vignettes. Centre displays a diamond-shaped chessboard with monogram "TSB", flanked by a Leuchtenburg castle vignette at left and rampant lion at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | XXIX. KONGRESS DES THÜRINGER SCHACHBUNDES VOM 9. BIS 12. JULI 1921 AUF DER LEUCHTENBURG BEI KAHLA A. D. SAALE. VERANSTALTER: SCHACHKLUB KAHLA GUTSCHEIN ÜBER DREIVIERTEL MARK GÜLTIG BIS 1. NOVEMBER 1921 EINZULOSEN BEI DER KONGRESS-LEITUNG: 75 Pfennig |
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Kahla is a small town in Thuringia, and in 1921 its chess club issued this 75 Pfennig note as part of the Notgeld wave that swept Germany's organizations, municipalities, and clubs during the postwar inflationary period. The issuer here is genuinely unusual — most Notgeld came from towns, savings banks, or commercial firms, not recreational clubs. A chess club issuing emergency currency is among the odder corners of the genre.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a legitimate commercial printer that handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions during 1920–1922, so the production quality was professional rather than improvised.