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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hamelin (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in colour presents a view of the Pferdemarkt (Horse Market) in Hameln, with a three-storey building with a red-tiled roof at centre and the tall spire of St. Nicolai church rising behind it amid trees. The scene is enclosed within the same decorative border of stylised foliage and zigzag outer rule as the obverse, with the four corner fields each bearing a circular guilloche rosette with a red millstone-iron device, and the denomination numeral '75' repeated in all four corners. |
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| Protection description | No watermarks |
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Hamelin's 1921 notgeld series is among the more deliberately theatrical of the German emergency currency issues — the city leaned hard into its Rattenfänger legend, commissioning Appelhans Verlag in Braunschweig to produce a set clearly intended as much for the collector trade as for actual small-change use. By 1921, the notgeld souvenir market was already well understood by municipal issuers, and Hamelin had the advantage of an internationally recognizable story to sell.
The watermarked paper is worth noting — most notgeld of this period dispensed with such formalities entirely.