80 Pfennig Kieler Herbstwoche für Kunst und Wissenschaft

The Kieler Herbstwoche — a festival week dedicated to art and science — was an unusual pretext for notgeld issue, most emergency municipal currency of the period being tied to straightforward payment shortages rather than cultural events. Kiel's 1921 series leaned into that identity deliberately, using the occasion as both a funding mechanism and a promotional vehicle during the height of the Serienscheine collecting craze, when municipalities across Germany issued artistically ambitious notes knowing full well they'd be absorbed by collectors rather than redeemed.

Gebrüder Parcus in Munich were among the more competent commercial printers handling notgeld commissions at the time, with a reputation for cleaner color registration than many competitors working under the same inflationary pressures.