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75 Pfennig Schachklub Kahla - Issue 5
| Issuer | Schachklub Kahla (Chess Club Kahla), 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 | The obverse is framed by a checkered border and divided into three horizontal bands filled with chess piece vignettes in alternating light and dark squares, evoking a chessboard motif. At upper left, a vignette of the Leuchtenburg castle near Kahla an der Saale appears alongside a heraldic dragon vignette at upper right; at lower left, a palm tree with a pineapple vignette is printed with the imprint 'L. HIMMER AUGSBURG'. The central field carries the interlaced monogram 'TSB' within a diamond-shaped chessboard cartouche, flanked by text blocks announcing the XXIXth Congress of the Thuringian Chess Federation and the voucher denomination of three-quarter Mark, valid until 1 November 1921, redeemable at the congress directorate, with a manuscript signature below; the denomination '75 Pfennig' appears in stylised script at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | SERIE SCHACH GRUPPE 5 SCHWARZ = DIE ENTENTE WEISS = DEUTSCHLAND DIE WELT-SCHACH-PARTIE STELLUNG NACH DEM 47. ZUGE VON WEISS. SCHWARZ IST AM ZUG WILSON-FRIEDE ELSASS-LOTHR. KOL. HEER FLOTTE OST-PREUSSEN SCHLESW.-H. POSEN WEST-PR. 75 Pfennig |
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Kahla's chess club issued this 75 Pfennig note during the Notgeld wave of 1921, when hundreds of German municipalities, clubs, and private organizations printed small-denomination emergency currency to address the chronic coin shortage of the early Weimar period. A chess club issuing its own banknotes is an unusual enough circumstance — the issuer here was almost certainly exploiting collector demand rather than genuine liquidity need, a practice so widespread by 1921 that the Reichsbank eventually moved to suppress so-called "Serienscheine" flooding the philatelic market.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg handled the printing, a firm with deep roots in commercial and ecclesiastical publishing since the mid-nineteenth century.