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75 Pfennig Sportverein Kahla - B6
| Issuer | Sportverein Kahla (Sport Club Kahla), Kahla, Thuringia |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red and green multicolour letterpress note with the circular club badge of Sportverein Kahla at centre, bearing the inscription SPORTVEREIN KAHLA and the founding year GEGR. 1910 around a bicolour red-and-white pennant vignette. The denomination numeral 75 appears in all four corners against a red ray underprint, flanked on each side by green oak-leaf panel inserts bearing the texts MITGLIED DES VERBANDES MITTELDEUTSCHER BALLSPIEL-VEREINE (left) and MITGLIED DES DEUTSCHEN FUSSBALL-BUNDES (right). A lower panel in white carries the large-type legend GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFUNDSIEBZIG PFENNIG, with the validity inscription GÜLTIG BEI ALLEN VERANSTALTUNGEN DES VEREINS BIS ZUM 1. JULI 1922 in a narrow strip below; the printer's imprint J. P. HIMMER AUGSBURG appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Red and green multicolour letterpress note with a central oval vignette enclosed by a green oak-leaf wreath, illustrating a humorous winter football scene captioned Fussball im Schnee, with players in black and green kit rendered in a caricature style; a music-score banner inscribed Im Herbst wenn's Wet-ter kühl scrolls across the upper left of the vignette. The club badge appears at the top centre above the wreath, flanked by the series and group designations SERIE B and GRUPPE 6. The denomination numeral 75 is placed in each upper corner against the red diaper-pattern underprint, and a lower text panel reads 3. MITTELDEUTSCHES SECHSER-TURNIER KAHLA 1921. / DIE TURNIER-LEITUNG: followed by a manuscript signature. |
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Sportverein Kahla was one of hundreds of German sports clubs and civic associations that issued notgeld during the early 1920s inflationary period — not out of financial necessity in the banking sense, but because collector demand had turned local emergency currency into a minor revenue stream. Clubs sold series directly to collectors, often at above face value, funding operations while issuing notes that rarely saw a single transaction.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg handled a substantial volume of this collector-grade notgeld work. The watermarked paper is the most technically notable feature here — an uncommon inclusion for small-denomination civic notgeld, suggesting either a deliberate quality signal or a printer's stock choice.