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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Hamm (Westfalen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a sage-green underprint with a decorative zigzag border in salmon and black, characteristic of Westphalian notgeld design. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper left and right, flanked by the issuer name 'Hamm (Westf.)' in Gothic Fraktur script, with the value legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large red and black Fraktur lettering across the centre. Below, a validity clause and the date 'Hamm (Westf.) d. 1. Oktober 1921' are printed in cursive, accompanied by the municipal coat of arms and two manuscript signatures under the title 'Der Magistrat:', identifying the Oberbürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Hamm (Westf.) 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. Hamm (Westf.) d. 1. Oktober 1921 Der Magistrat: Oberbürgermeister Bürgermeister |
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Hamm's 1921 Notgeld series was part of the broader municipal emergency currency wave that flooded Germany's small-denomination market as federal coin production collapsed under postwar inflation and metal shortages. Stadt Hamm, a mid-sized Westphalian industrial town with significant rail junction infrastructure, issued several denominations through this period. The 50 Pfennig value was among the most heavily circulated of any local Notgeld — small enough to substitute directly for missing coinage, which meant these saw genuine everyday use rather than serving as the collector-targeted "Serienscheine" that other municipalities were already exploiting for revenue by 1921.
The GrM reference places this within Grabowski-Mehl's exhaustive Notgeld catalog, with the suffixed numbering indicating multiple known variants within Hamm's 50 Pfennig type.