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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hameln (City of Hamelin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFUNDZWANZIG PFENNIG 25 NOTGELD DER STADT HAMELN DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON UNSERER KÄMMEREIKASSE EINGELÖST ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH AUFKÜNDIGUNG IN DEN HAMELNER ORTSBLÄTTERN HAMELN, DEN 1. JUNI 1921 DER MAGISTRAT: J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER. |
| Reverse description | The upper portion of the reverse carries a green-tinted vignette reproducing a medieval relief carving known as the 'Siebenlinge Denkstein' (Septuplets' Memorial Stone), in which two kneeling adults in period dress are shown on either side of a bier upon which seven swaddled infants lie, with standing figures gathered behind in devotional poses; the denomination numerals '25' appear in white at the upper left and right corners flanking a ribbon cartouche inscribed 'DER SIEBENLINGE DENKSTEIN'. The lower portion, set against the blue-grey ground, carries a ten-line Early New High German verse inscription in white lettering recounting the birth and death of seven children to the burgher Thiele Römer and his wife Anna Breyers in the year 1600. |
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Hamelin's notgeld series are among the most self-consciously themed in the entire German emergency currency phenomenon — the city leaned hard into the Pied Piper legend, and J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover produced the printing work for a municipality that clearly understood its tourist identity as a marketable asset even in the middle of postwar economic chaos. By 1921, notgeld had largely shifted from genuine small-change necessity to a collector-driven secondary market, and many issues were printed in quantities well beyond local need.
König & Ebhardt was a serious commercial printer with deep roots in Hannover — not a stopgap choice.