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10 Pfennig EDEKA
| Issuer | EDEKA Zentral-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft e.G.m.b.H., Berlin |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on warm ochre-toned paper with a repeating diamond-lattice guilloche underprint incorporating the word 'EDEKA' in a tiled pattern across the entire field. To the left, a diamond-shaped trademark vignette bears the 'EdK' monogram above 'EDEKA' in bold letterpress, encircled by the full corporate name 'Zentral-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft e.G.m.b.H. Berlin'. The denomination '10 Pfennig' appears in large bold black letterpress to the right beneath the heading 'Edeka-Gutschein im Werte von', with the validity notice 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921' and a redemption disclaimer in smaller type along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Edeka-Gutschein im Werte von 10 Pfennig EdK EDEKA Zentral-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft e.G.m.b.H. Berlin Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921 Dieser Gutschein wird von allen durch obige Edeka-Marke kenntlichen Geschäften bei allen Einkäufen verrechnet Bareinlösung findet nicht statt |
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EDEKA — the Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler — issued small-denomination paper tokens during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I. Germany's postwar Kleingeldersatz problem was severe enough that private businesses, municipalities, and cooperatives all stepped in with their own emergency scrip. EDEKA's version circulated among member grocers as internal trade credit, not as general public currency.
The cooperative's cooperative structure made this legally awkward but tolerated. Reichsbank restrictions on private Notgeld tightened considerably after 1922.