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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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| Reverse description | Vibrantly coloured vignette in red, yellow, blue, and black illustrating the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. A large yellow rat occupies the centre foreground, flanked by two dark rats rendered in stylised folk-art manner, with a half-timbered townscape in the background and a small figure of the Piper in red at centre. Denomination roundels reading '50 Pf' appear at lower left and lower right, while the legend 'DER RATTENFÄNGER VON HAMELN' is lettered in bold across the lower margin, and 'DIE RATTENPLAGE' curves along the right border. |
| Reverse lettering | DER RATTENFÄNGER VON HAMELN DIE RATTENPLAGE 50 Pf |
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Hamelin's 1922 Notgeld issue was produced during the hyperinflationary spiral that made municipal emergency currency a practical necessity across Weimar Germany. Appelhans in Braunschweig was a prolific Notgeld printer, supplying dozens of municipal issuers across Lower Saxony during this period — the Hamelin pieces are among the more collectible from that regional run, largely because the city leaned into its Pied Piper association with unusual consistency across the series.
Notgeld of this vintage rarely survived circulation in any quantity; the notes were redeemable for limited windows and most were surrendered or simply discarded when inflation made the face value meaningless within months of printing.