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75 Pfennig Hamburger Warte
| Issuer | Hamburger Warte |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Hamburger Warte PF. 75 PF. Für Kriegerwitwen und Kriegerwaisen Solln diese Scheine die Welt bereisen. Nun kauft davon, soviel ihr wollt, Es wird sich wandeln in lauteres Gold! DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT, WENN ER NICHT BIS Z. 31. DEZ. 1921 BEI DER BANK F. HANDEL U. INDUSTRIE, FIL. HAMBURG, O.-K. MUNDSBURG, EINGELÖST WIRD. HAMBURG, 1. JULI 1921. |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and red on cream paper, the reverse is enclosed by a broad red border framing a central vignette in a medievalising woodcut style. An allegorical figure of Caritas, robed and veiled, extends her mantle protectively over five children gathered at her feet, evoking charitable shelter. The inscription 'CARITAS' appears above the figure in bold Roman capitals, and a two-line verse in Gothic script occupies a cartouche at the foot of the composition. |
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The Hamburger Warte was a major Hamburg daily newspaper, and this 75 Pfennig note is one of hundreds of emergency issues — Notgeld — printed by private businesses, municipalities, and institutions during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar Republic. Newspapers occasionally issued their own Notgeld as a pragmatic response to coin shortages; small denomination metal currency had effectively vanished from circulation by 1921, hoarded or melted down as the mark's purchasing power collapsed.
Collector-oriented Notgeld flooded the market in this period, but a newspaper-issued piece carries at least the plausibility of genuine transactional use.