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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinden Altenwerder und Finkenwärder |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 100 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-orange ground with a large circular vignette at the top centre enclosing the denomination numeral '50' in bold Art Nouveau scrollwork. Below, a decorative ribbon banner in mauve and grey carries the legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinden' in blackletter script, with a second scroll beneath reading 'Altenwerder u. Finkenwärder'. The lower portion states the expiry clause and carries four manuscript facsimile signatures representing the two issuing municipalities, dated 1.11.21, with the printer's imprint 'Dr. Linnemann & Co. G.m.b.H., Köln' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-orange ground with a central allegorical vignette showing a bull standing over an aerial view of Altenwerder on the left, and a sailor tossing fruit beside a laden basket above an aerial view of Finkenwärder on the right; behind them the Hamburg city gate rises against a large white solar disc with sailing vessels visible on the water. Denomination panels '50 Pfg.' appear in diamond-shaped cartouches at upper left and upper right. A lower text band in blackletter script carries a Low German regional motto. |
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Altenwerder and Finkenwärder were two small fishing communities on islands in the southern Elbe, administratively separate from Hamburg despite being practically engulfed by the port's expanding infrastructure. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, they issued their own Kleingeldersatz — emergency small change — because the Reichsbank simply could not supply sufficient low-denomination coinage during the postwar inflation spiral. That two such minor settlements issued jointly is unusual; most Notgeld of this type came from a single issuing body.
Dr. Linnemann & Co. in Cologne handled a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld printing during this period, which kept unit costs down for communities with small print runs.