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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hauptstaatskasse Hamburg |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | A. №904060 Wechselschein zur Aushilfe PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG Dieser Aushilfsschein wird von allen zugelassenen staatlichen Kassen und von den Banken in Hamburg in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem Ablauf des 31. Dezember 1918. In Beträgen von 5 Mark werden diese Scheine durch unterzeichnete Kasse gegen Kassenscheine oder Noten eingetauscht Hauptstaatskasse in Hamburg ·PFENNIG·50·PFENNIG· |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG Hamburg, 20. März 1917 |
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Hamburg's Hauptstaatskasse — the main state treasury, not a commercial bank — issued this note as part of Germany's Kleingeldersatz system, the nationwide emergency small-change substitution scheme that emerged after silver and copper coins disappeared into hoarding and wartime metal requisitions. By 1917, the Reichsbank had lost effective control of fractional currency, and hundreds of municipal and regional authorities were printing their own Notgeld to keep retail commerce functional.
The official stamp served as the sole authentication mechanism, which made these notes trivially easy to counterfeit — a known problem across the entire Kleingeldersatz program.