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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hameln (City of Hamelin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | Ochre ground with a woodcut-style vignette in the upper portion, reproducing a scene from 'Der Siebenlinge Denkstein' (the Septuplets Memorial Stone): a group of robed figures surrounds a cradle bearing seven swaddled infants, with attendant figures gesturing on either side, rendered in a naive medieval graphic style. Denomination numerals '75' appear in the upper left and right corners flanking a central cartouche with the title inscription. Below the vignette, a nine-line period verse in archaic German script recounts the birth and death of the seven children of citizen Thiele Römer and his wife Anna Breyers in the year 1600. |
| Reverse lettering | DER SIEBENLINGE DENKSTEIN 75 75 ALHIER EIN BÜRGER THIELE RÖMER GENANNT SEINE HAUSFRAU ANNA BREYERS WOHLBEKANNT ALS MANN ZÆHLTE 1600 JAHR DEN 9TEN IANUARIUS DES MORGENS 3 UHR WAR VON IHR ZWEY KNÄBELEIN UND FÜNF MÆDELEIN AUF EINE ZEIT GEBOHREN SEIN HABEN AUCH DIE HEILIGEN TAUF ERWORBEN FOLGENDS DEN 20TEN 12 UHR SEELIG GESTORBEN GOTT WOLLE IHN GEBEN DIE SÆLLIGKEIT DIE ALLEN GLÆUBIGEN IST BEREIT ** |
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Hamelin issued this 75 Pfennig note during the Notgeld surge of 1921, when hundreds of German municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency to compensate for chronic small-coin shortages in the postwar economy. Hamelin's issues leaned hard into the Pied Piper legend — the town had been commercially exploiting that story since the 19th century, and Notgeld gave local authorities an unusually direct vehicle for that branding.
J. C. König & Ebhardt, the Hannover firm responsible for this printing, had a long history in high-quality commercial lithography and book production — a cut above the jobbing printers many smaller towns used for their Notgeld runs.