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50 Pfennig
| Uitgever | Stadt Hameln (City of Hamelin) |
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| Jaar | 1922 |
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| Vorm | Rectangular |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Folk-art style Notgeld printed in red, green, and blue on white paper, enclosed within a decorative scalloped border interspersed with stylized birds, tulips, and floral motifs executed in a naïve expressionist hand. The denomination numeral '50' in red occupies the centre field, with the issuing authority legend in blue across the upper register and a validity inscription in cursive script beneath. The date 'April 1. 1922' is placed at lower right, with the printer's imprint of Druckerei Appelhans, Braunschweig, along the bottom margin. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Bold woodcut-style vignette printed in red and purple illustrating the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin: a cloaked piper playing his instrument leads a procession of children toward a darkened hillside, with stylized trees forming the background. Denomination roundels inscribed '50 Pf' appear at upper right and lower right corners, with a sun motif at upper left. The marginal border carries the legend 'RATTENFÄNGER ENTFÜHRT DIE KINDER' in vertical text along the left and right margins. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Hameln's 1922 Notgeld issue belongs to the final wave of municipal emergency currency before hyperinflation rendered small-denomination paper entirely worthless — by late 1923, a 50 Pfennig note would have purchased nothing measurable. Appelhans in Braunschweig was a well-used regional printer for Lower Saxon municipal issues of this period, producing runs for multiple towns simultaneously, which kept costs down but means the printing quality across the series is consistent and generally clean.
Hameln leaned heavily into the Pied Piper legend for its Notgeld designs — the city had been marketing that association since at least the late nineteenth century, and the 1922 series was a deliberate continuation of that civic branding effort.