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25 Pfennig Alte Diele
| Issuer | Alte Diele, Hamburg St. Pauli |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 62 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on buff paper; central oval vignette with denomination '25 PFENNIG' medallion, issuer name encircling, corner roundels bearing '25', and flanking verse texts. |
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| Obverse lettering | PFENNIG ALTE DIELE 25 HAMBURG ST. PAULI Bist auf St. Pauli Du am Ziele, Dann kehre ein zur "Alten Diele" Du kriegst statt Kleingeld diesen Schein Ich weiß,- Du kehrst stets wieder ein, Auch wird er 'Hier' zu Nutz u Frommen Zum vollen Werte angenommen |
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Hamburg's St. Pauli district produced hundreds of privately issued emergency currency notes — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar years, and the Alte Diele was among the local establishments that printed their own small-denomination scrip when coin shortages made ordinary commerce difficult. Whether the Alte Diele was a restaurant, tavern, or retail shop is not definitively established in the standard references, but St. Pauli venue Notgeld of this type was typically redeemable only on the premises, functioning more as a token system than a true circulating currency.
The 25 Pfennig denomination places it squarely in the most practical range for counter transactions in 1921 — before hyperinflation rendered such fixed values absurd within months.