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50 Pfennig Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer Harburg (Chamber of Commerce, Harburg an der Elbe) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG Gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheines zahlt die Handelskammer in Harburg a. d. Elbe den Betrag von 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht 3 Monate nach öffentlichem Abruf eingelöst wird. Die Handelskammer Harburg-S. 50 PF. Nr. 50 PF. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN über 50 PFENNIG 50 DIE HANDELSKAMMER HARBURG ELBE. 50 |
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Harburg an der Elbe was still an independent Prussian city in the early Weimar notgeld period — it would not be incorporated into Hamburg until 1937. The Handelskammer, as the local chamber of commerce, had both the institutional authority and the practical motivation to issue emergency small change during the acute coin shortage of 1917–1921, when hoarding of metal currency had effectively stripped low denominations from everyday commerce.
Chamber-issued notgeld from Harburg is less frequently encountered than municipal issues from the same period, making the precise series and date critical to attribution.