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50 Pfennig Zoologischer Garten, imprint on obverse
| Issuer | Zoologischer Garten Hamburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Hartung & Co. m.b.H., Hamburg, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width humorous vignette in black letterpress on a pale ground, illustrating a scene at the monkey enclosure in which a mischievous monkey snatches a lady's hat while amused zoo visitors look on. Below the vignette, a rhyming caption in Gothic script is set between two red rectangular panels each bearing the denomination '50 Pf.' in white. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Ahnt ich's doch, daß so ein Affe Deinen schönen Hut erraffe! Wenn du denkst, jetzt kommt ein neuer, Nee, mein Kind, das wird zu teuer! 50 Pf. |
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Hamburg Zoo issued this note in 1921 as Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip that flooded Germany during the coin shortage of the early Weimar period. Zoologischer Garten Hamburg was one of hundreds of commercial and municipal bodies that printed their own fractional currency when Reichsmünzen effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted as inflation accelerated.
Hartung & Co. in Hamburg ran a substantial print quantity for a zoo-issued piece — over twelve million notes. That figure reflects not novelty collecting demand but genuine transactional necessity at the turnstiles.