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50 Pfennig Sportvereinigung St. Georg
| Issuer | Sportvereinigung St. Georg, Hamburger Turnerschaft von 1816 |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency money) printed in teal, black, and ochre on cream paper. A central circular vignette illustrates Saint George on horseback slaying a dragon, rendered in a bold graphic style. The issuer's monogram cartouche bearing '1816 St' appears at upper left, with the denomination '50 Pf.' repeated at upper right and lower left; text identifies the redemption bank as Bankhaus Möhle & Dallmer, Glockengiesserwall 17, Hamburg, and carries a manuscript signature dated Hamburg, 1. Sept. 1921. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Sportvereinigung St. Georg der Hamburger Turnerschaft von 1816 Einlösungsstelle: Bankhaus Möhle & Dallmer Glockengiesserwall 17 50 Pf. Dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung seine Gültigkeit. Hamburg d. 1. Sept. 1921 |
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Sportverein notgeld from 1921 is unusual even within the already crowded field of Hamburg emergency currency. Most notgeld issuers were municipal authorities, savings banks, or commercial firms — a sports association issuing its own scrip is a genuine outlier. The Hamburger Turnerschaft von 1816 was one of Germany's oldest gymnastics clubs, founded in the year German Turner movement patriarch Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was publishing his foundational texts, and the organization retained considerable civic weight into the Weimar inflation years.
Designer A. Mühlhan was a Hamburg-based commercial artist active in local notgeld production during 1920–1922. Whether this note circulated beyond the club's own membership events or functioned as a commemorative issue is unresolved.