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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hameln (City of Hamelin) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN D. STADT HAMELN ÜBER 50 Pf KÄMMEREI KASSE HAMELNER Ortsklubtreu 1. April 1922 Druckerei Appelhans, Braunschweig |
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| Reverse lettering | AUSZUG MIT DEN RATTEN HAMELNER RATTENFÄNGER 50 Pf AUS HAMELN |
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Hamelin's municipal notgeld program ran well into the inflation period, and this 50 Pfennig piece belongs to the wave of 1922 issues produced as small-denomination coins became essentially impossible to keep in circulation — hoarding and melting had made genuine change nearly extinct. Appelhans in Braunschweig handled a substantial volume of municipal emergency paper across Lower Saxony during these years, functioning almost as a regional clearinghouse for desperate town treasuries.
Hamelin leaned hard into its Pied Piper identity for collector appeal — the town understood early that well-designed notgeld sold to philatelists and tourists, effectively generating free municipal credit.