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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hameln (City of Hamelin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Square format notgeld note printed on a grey-stippled ground within a double-rule border. The large numeral "50" occupies the upper centre beneath the denomination legend "FÜNFZIG PFENNIG" in bold capitals, with the issuing authority text "NOTGELD DER STADT HAMELN" in two tiers of progressively larger type below. A redemption clause in smaller lettering fills the lower field, followed by the date "HAMELN, DEN 1. JUNI 1921" at lower left and the facsimile signature of the Magistrat at lower right; a red serial number appears at bottom left. The printer's imprint "J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER" is printed outside the border at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 DER SIEBENLINGE DENKSTEIN 50 ALHIER EIN BÜRGER THIELE RÖMER GENANNT SEINE HAUSFRAU ANNA BREYERS WOHLBEKANNT ALS MANN ZÆHLTE 1600 JAHR DEN 9TEN IANUARIUS DES MORGENS 3 UHR WAR VON IHR ZWEY KNÄBELEIN UND FÜNF MÆDELEIN AUF EINE ZEIT GEBOHREN SEIN HABEN AUCH DIE HEILIGEN TAUF ERWORBEN FOLGENDS DEN 20TEN 12 UHR SEELIG GESTORBEN GOTT WOLLE IHN GEBEN DIE SÆLLIGKEIT DIE ALLEN GLÆUBIGEN IST BEREIT |
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Hameln's 1921 Notgeld issues leaned hard into the Pied Piper legend — the town had been commercially exploiting the Rattenfänger story since the late nineteenth century, and the municipal Notgeld program gave the city treasury a reason to print attractive small-denomination scrip that tourists and collectors would pocket rather than spend. This self-conscious collectability was built into the design strategy from the start, and Hameln was unusually sophisticated about it compared to many contemporaries issuing emergency currency purely out of necessity.
J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover, a serious commercial printer with a long lithographic pedigree, produced the series. The square format — uncommon among German municipal issues — was a deliberate choice, not a production accident.