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75 Pfennig Sportverein Kahla - B4
| Issuer | Sportverein Kahla (Sport Club Kahla), Kahla, Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Red and green multicolour Notgeld coupon with a bold red rayonnant underprint filling the field. At centre, a large circular club vignette bears the inscription 'SPORTVEREIN KAHLA' around its circumference and 'GEGR. 1910' at the base, enclosing the club's diagonal-striped shield in red, green and white, itself surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves. Two flanking text panels in Gothic lettering announce the club's membership of the Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel-Vereine and the Deutschen Fussball-Bundes. The denomination '75' appears in each corner, and a lower white panel carries the bold letterpress legend 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFUNDSIEBZIG PFENNIG', beneath which a thin rule line reads 'GÜLTIG BEI ALLEN VERANSTALTUNGEN DES VEREINS BIS ZUM 1. JULI 1922'; the printer's imprint of J. P. Himmer, Augsburg, appears at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | SPORTVEREIN KAHLA GEGR. 1910 MITGLIED DES VERBANDES MITTELDEUTSCHER BALLSPIEL-VEREINE MITGLIED DES DEUTSCHEN FUSSBALL-BUNDES 75 GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFUNDSIEBZIG PFENNIG GÜLTIG BEI ALLEN VERANSTALTUNGEN DES VEREINS BIS ZUM 1. JULI 1922. |
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Sportverein Kahla issued this 75 Pfennig note during the Notgeld surge of 1921, when German sports clubs, trade associations, and municipal bodies alike were producing emergency small-denomination currency to address the chronic coin shortage of the early Weimar period. That a sports club was authorized — or simply took the initiative — to issue circulating scrip is characteristic of just how decentralized and unregulated the Notgeld phenomenon had become by that point.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a competent commercial printer with a long production history, and their Notgeld output was substantial across multiple issuing bodies. The watermarked paper on this piece was a gesture toward legitimacy in a category where counterfeiting was rarely worth the effort.