50 Pfennig - Hannover Henry Seligmann

50 Pfennig - Hannover (Henry Seligmann) - obverse50 Pfennig - Hannover (Henry Seligmann) - reverse

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Features

Issuer City of Hanover (notgeld) (Prussian province of Hanover)
Period Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1921
Value 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50)
Currency Mark (1914-1924)
Composition Porcelain (brown)
Weight 3.3 g
Diameter 25 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
135102
References Men05# 10843.4,
Peter Menzel; 2005. Deutschsprachige Notmünzen und Geldersatzmarken im In- und Ausland / Band 1. Ausgabeorte Aach bis Myszkowo (2nd edition). Münzhandel + Verlag Beate Strothotte, Gütersloh, Germany.
And 1 more volumes.
Men18# 13596.4
Peter Menzel; 2018. Deutschsprachige Notmünzen und Geldersatzmarken im In- und Ausland 1840-2002. Winfried Bogon Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

Obverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Hannover
1921

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Henry Seligmann
50 PF

Mint

Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur, Meissen, Germany

Comments

Menzel: EEE
Seligmann made from 1896 to 1903 in Hamburg a banking apprenticeship at the operating in the banking and exchange business company Flörsheim, which also acted with coins. He then became managing director of the bank and lottery business NM Falck & Co. in Hanover. In 1905 he took over the company and ran his own bank and lottery business under the name Henry Seligmann, bank lottery and coin business , first in the Bahnhofstrasse 1, since 1907 in the Contihaus in the Georgstraße 20. In addition to the sale of lottery tickets and the money moved Seligmann business more on the coin trade and under the name coin business Henry Seligmann , the company soon became one of the most important coin dealers in northern Germany until 1933 numerous auctions carried out, including the collection Karl Graf Inn and Knyphausen from the possession of the Provincial Museum Hannover (catalogs edited by Georg Pfanneberg). In 1921, he issued as emergency money two porcelain coins to 25 and 50 Pfennig out. 1927 to 1928 he moved the magazine Sammelfreunden. Magazine for all collecting areas , 1928-1930 the magazine Hannoverscher Münzverkehr . Wikipedia

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1921  12 000 $ 12

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