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50 Pfennig Zoologischer Garten
| Issuer | Hamburg, City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#563.2a-3/4 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfg De Welt is as ne Kasperbod • den krigt on Em een op'n Hod. Mattler Diese 50pfg gilt nur für Zoologischen Garten Nr. 21 u. 23. Nº 20600 50 Pfg F. W. RADEMACHER HAMBURG 8 |
| Reverse description | Green-toned note with a scenic vignette of the Hamburg Zoological Garden, showing a lake and a large villa-style building set among trees. In the foreground, two kangaroos are rendered in brown, with the curved inscription 'Zoologischer Garten' arching over them. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in bold black lettering at the upper left and right, flanking a circular vignette of a squirrel at the top centre. 'Hamburg' is inscribed at the lower left. |
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Hamburg's zoo notgeld series of 1922 is among the more deliberately collectible issues produced during the inflationary notgeld boom — the Zoologischer Garten pieces were designed with a secondary market clearly in mind, issued at a premium to face value and sold to collectors through the zoo's own ticket office. Whether they ever functioned as genuine small-change substitutes is debatable; most were bought as souvenirs and never tendered.
F. W. Rademacher was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular distinction in security printing, which places this squarely in the civilian, municipal tier of notgeld production rather than anything approaching official currency.