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75 Pfennig Schachklub Kahla - Issue 4
| Issuer | Schachklub Kahla (Chess Club Kahla), Kahla, Thuringia, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper and enclosed within a chequered outer border. A chessboard-themed upper register runs the full width, displaying two rows of chess pieces in alternating light and dark squares, flanked at left by a vignette of the Leuchtenburg castle above the Saale valley and at right by a heraldic dragon or sea-creature device. The central text field, divided by a large diamond cartouche bearing the interlaced monogram 'TSB' on a chequered ground, carries on the left the congress announcement 'XXIX. KONGRESS DES THÜRINGER SCHACHBUNDES VOM 9. BIS 12. JULI 1921 AUF DER LEUCHTENBURG BEI KAHLA A. D. SAALE.' and on the right the redemption details 'VERANSTALTER: SCHACHKLUB KAHLA · GUTSCHEIN ÜBER DREIVIERTEL MARK · GÜLTIG BIS 1. NOVEMBER 1921 · EINZULÖSEN BEI DER KONGRESS-LEITUNG:' followed by a manuscript signature. A lower register repeats the chessboard-and-pieces motif, flanked at left by a pine-cone and palm-frond vignette with the printer's imprint 'L. HIMMER · AUGSBURG', and at right by the ornate denomination numeral '75 Pfennig'. |
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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 EINZULÖSEN BEI DER KONGRESS-LEITUNG: 75 Pfennig L. HIMMER · AUGSBURG |
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Kahla, a small Thuringian porcelain town, was among hundreds of German municipalities and private organizations that issued their own emergency currency during the postwar currency chaos. That a chess club did so is unusual even by Notgeld standards — most private-body issuers were trade guilds, businesses, or civic associations with an obvious transactional purpose. Whether the Schachklub actually circulated these notes as functional currency or produced them primarily for the collector trade, which was already voracious for Notgeld by 1921, is the real question this series raises.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a reputable commercial printer with a substantial Notgeld portfolio. This is their fourth issue for the club.