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50 Pfennig Handelskammer, 'Pfennigen' on obverse
| Issuer | Handelskammer zu Hannover (Chamber of Commerce, Hanover) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheins zahlt die Handelskammer zu Hannover den Betrag von Fünfzig Pfennigen. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb drei Monaten nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung eingelöst wird. Hannover, den 1. Juli 1921 Die Handelskammer |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 50 Fünfzig Pfennige J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover. |
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The "Pfennigen" spelling on the obverse is a known typographic error — standard German uses "Pfennig" as both singular and plural, making "Pfennigen" a grammatically malformed dative plural that should never have left the press. Handelskammer issues carrying this mistake are catalogued separately from the corrected variant, hence the distinct Grabowski reference. J. C. König & Ebhardt, the Hannover printer responsible, had a long and otherwise unremarkable record of commercial printing work; this slip stands as one of their more documented production errors.
Notgeld from Hanover's Chamber of Commerce was issued during the acute small-change shortage of 1921, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany were authorized to produce emergency fractional currency to keep retail trade moving.