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50 Pfennig Alte Diele
| Issuer | Alte Diele (Hamburg-St. Pauli) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress notgeld on cream paper, with large bold 'PFENNIG' at top and bottom, and denomination numeral '50' in dotted circles at all four corners. A central eye-shaped guilloche vignette bears the issuer name 'ALTE DIELE' above and 'HAMBURG-ST. PAULI' below, enclosing a central oval with '50 PFENNIG'. Flanking verse text in German fills the left and right panels. |
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| Reverse lettering | Hummel - Hummel! M -- s. 50 Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dez. 1921. |
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Alte Diele was a well-known tavern and meeting place in St. Pauli, and this 50 Pfennig note is a piece of Hamburg Notgeld — emergency small change issued by local businesses and municipalities during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. With the Reichsbank unable to keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough to outpace inflation, thousands of private issuers stepped in. A tavern issuing its own currency was entirely unremarkable at the time.
Locally printed, redeemable only at the issuing establishment, and typically withdrawn from circulation within months — survival depends almost entirely on whether collectors pulled them before redemption.