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30 Pfennig Alte Diele
| Issuer | Alte Diele, Hamburg-St. Pauli |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain tan stock bearing a central line-engraved vignette of a group of five figures in 19th-century Hamburg street dress — top hats, market baskets and period attire — rendered in the style of classic Hamburg genre illustration. The caption Die alten Hamburger-Originale. appears above the vignette, and the expiry notice Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dezember 1921. is printed along the lower margin. The denomination numeral 30 is set within a dotted circular frame in the upper right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Die alten Hamburger-Originale. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dezember 1921. 30 |
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Alte Diele was a well-known restaurant and tavern on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg's St. Pauli district. This 30 Pfennig piece is classic Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute scrip issued privately during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in 1921 as postwar inflation began eroding the value of metal coinage faster than the mint could replace it. Thousands of German businesses, municipalities, and institutions issued their own Notgeld in this period; the Hamburg tavern trade was no exception.
At 62 × 43 mm, this is among the smaller pieces in the Notgeld spectrum — practical for a till, not decorative like the larger Serienscheine issued for collectors.