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75 Pfennig Schachklub Kahla - Issue 6
| Issuer | Schachklub Kahla (Chess Club Kahla), Kahla, Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a checkerboard border and divided into three horizontal registers. The upper and lower registers each contain a row of chess pieces arranged on chessboard squares, flanked at upper left by a vignette of Leuchtenburg castle and at upper right by a heraldic dragon, and at lower left by a palm tree with pine cone. The central register bears at left the congress text inscription and at right the voucher denomination text, with a large diamond-shaped chessboard underprint at centre carrying the interlaced monogram 'TSB' in ornate lettering. The denomination '75 Pfennig' appears in calligraphic script at lower 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: TSB 75 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | The reverse is enclosed by a checkerboard border and presents four humorous pen-and-ink vignettes arranged around a central denomination numeral '75 Pfennig', each scene illustrating a chess archetype: upper left shows a procession of chess pieces labelled 'DIE KORRSER', upper right a chessboard beset by birds labelled 'DIE KIEBITZE', lower left an animated chessboard with tumbling pieces labelled 'DIE BLITZSPIELER', and lower right a caricatured figure under attack labelled 'SCHACH DEM KÖNIG!'. A printer's monogram appears at lower left, and the group designation 'GRUPPE G' is inscribed at top centre. |
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