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75 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Hamelin (Magistrat der Stadt Hameln) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a colour view of a historic Renaissance-style half-timbered townhouse in Hameln with a red-tiled roof, rendered in polychrome lithography. The vignette is framed by the same olive and black geometric border as the obverse, with matching rosette medallions at the sides and denomination numeral 75 in each corner. |
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| Signature(s) | Jürgens |
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| Comments |
Hamelin's Notgeld series leaned hard into the Pied Piper legend — the town had been commercially exploiting that story since the late nineteenth century, and the 1921 emergency currency issues were a natural extension of that local branding effort. Appelhans in Braunschweig handled a significant volume of municipal Notgeld work for Lower Saxony towns during this period, and their presswork on the Hameln series is generally consistent.
The single signature — Jürgens — reflects the Magistrat's stripped-down authorization practice during the inflationary emergency issues, when full board countersignatures had become impractical.