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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hameln (City of Hamelin), Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Bold typographic design printed in red, blue, and black on white paper, with the town name STADT HAMELN A.D. WESER arched across the upper central field in large blue capital letters against a dark crosshatched background. A central star-shaped vignette in red carries the denomination inscription GUT FÜR 50 PFENNIG in stylized script. The entire composition is framed by a running red letterpress legend forming a continuous border, with the issuing authority signature DER MAGISTRAT: JÜRGENS and date HAMELN D. 1. SEPT. 1921 inscribed at the lower centre; the printer's imprint DRUCKEREI APPELHANS BRAUNSCHWEIG appears at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZUSAMMEN KOMMT DER WEISE RAT UND SUCHT NACH HILFE FRÜH UND SPÄT EIN FREMDLING BIETET RETTUNG AN SOLL DAFÜR GOLD UND SILBER HAN·2 |
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Hameln issued this Notgeld piece during the hyperinflationary spiral that made small-denomination coinage effectively worthless by 1921 — municipal authorities across Germany were printing their own emergency currency simply to keep local commerce functional. Hameln leaned into its most bankable asset: the Pied Piper legend. The series was produced by Appelhans in Braunschweig, a printer that handled considerable Notgeld work for Lower Saxony municipalities during this period.
The .2a-2/6 suffix in the DeNG reference indicates this is one of several color or text variants within the 566 series — collectors should verify the specific printing against the full Grabowski-Mehl listings, as Hameln issued an unusually large number of thematic variants.