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75 Pfennig Sportverein Kahla - B5
| Issuer | Sportverein Kahla (Sport 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 lettering | SPORTVEREIN KAHLA GEG. 1910 MITGLIED DES VERBANDES MITTELDEUTSCHER BALLSPIEL-VEREINE MITGLIED DES DEUTSCHEN FUSSBALL-BUNDES GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFUNDSIEBIZIG PFENNIG GÜLTIG BEI ALLEN VERANSTALTUNGEN DES VEREINS BIS ZUM 1. JULI 1922. 75 |
| Reverse description | Red underprint with an all-over rosette pattern on cream paper, centred on an oval green vignette enclosed within a wreath of oak and laurel tied with a ribbon scroll. The vignette illustrates a football scene with a player scoring a goal into a net, the exclamation "Tor!" lettered on the green pitch. The Sportverein Kahla circular emblem appears at the top centre between the denomination numerals "75" in the upper corners, flanked by the series and group designations SERIE B and GRUPPE 5. The lower margin carries the tournament inscription in two lines with a manuscript facsimile signature of the tournament directorate. |
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Kahla's sport club issuing its own emergency currency in 1921 is less unusual than it sounds — German Notgeld of the inflation period was printed by municipalities, businesses, social clubs, and civic associations alike, often as much for sale to collectors as for genuine transactional use. By 1921, the collector market for Notgeld was substantial enough that many issues were designed and ordered specifically to generate revenue from philatelic demand rather than to relieve any real small-change shortage.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a serious commercial printer with a long production history, not a local jobbing press, which suggests this series was ordered with some care. The watermark security feature is a minor but telling detail — an unnecessary expense for a note primarily intended as a collector piece, unless the issuer was hedging toward legitimate circulation use.