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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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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Teal and black Notgeld coupon with a central circular vignette of Saint George on horseback slaying a dragon, rendered in a bold illustrative style with golden tones. The upper field carries the title inscription in Gothic lettering, flanked at left by the monogram cartouche bearing '1816 St' and at right by the denomination '50 Pf.' in a banner; the redemption address of Bankhaus Möhle & Dallmer, Glockengiesserwäll 17, appears at lower left. The date 'Hamburg d. 1. Sept. 1921' and a manuscript signature are set at lower right, with the designer's name 'A. MÜHLHAN' printed at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome vignette in warm yellow and red tones showing a covered rowing boat with elegantly dressed passengers on the Alster waterway, with swans in the foreground and a windmill on the left bank; a red flag bearing the Hamburg city arms is carried at the boat's stern. The caption at upper right reads 'ALSTERSCHÜTTE UM 1800', and the denomination '50 Pf.' appears in grey cartouches at both lower corners. A two-line Low German verse runs across the lower banner beneath the scene. |
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Sportvereinigung St. Georg was a Hamburg sports club, and this 1921 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of privately issued Notgeld that flooded Germany during the postwar small-change famine. The Hamburger Turnerschaft von 1816 — one of the oldest gymnastics associations in Germany, founded just a year after Waterloo — had by this point merged its sporting interests under the St. Georg banner, making the issuing authority an unusual hybrid of athletic club and civic institution rather than a municipality or savings bank.
A. Mühlhan designed the note locally. Club-issued Notgeld of this type rarely circulated far beyond the membership.