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30 Pfennig Alte Diele
| Issuer | Alte Diele, Hamburg-St. Pauli |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue typographic design centred on a large eye-shaped vignette with dotted guilloche border, the issuer name ALTE DIELE arched above and HAMBURG-ST. PAULI below, enclosing a central oval with denomination numeral 30 PFENNIG. Denomination numerals 30 appear in dotted circles at all four corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die alten Hamburger-Originale. 30 Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dezember 1921. |
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Alte Diele was a well-known inn and restaurant in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, and like thousands of German businesses during the 1921 Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that followed postwar currency dislocation — it issued its own Notgeld to keep daily transactions moving. These hyperlocal pieces circulated as functional scrip within a very tight geographic radius, redeemable only at the issuing establishment, which means survival rates depend almost entirely on whether customers bothered to return them at all.