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10 Pfennigs Sozialdemokratische Werbewoche
| Issuer | Sozialdemokratische Partei, Emden (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 98 x 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange and red letterpress note with a decorative border enclosing a central text panel in Gothic script, headed 'Zehn Pfennig / Sozialdemokratische Werbewoche / vom 4.–11. Dezember 1921.' The vignette panels at upper left and right each bear a raised fist amid radiating rays. The central field carries a four-line verse dedicated to Friedrich Engels, with the years 1918 and 1921 at lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Orange and red letterpress note with a bold decorative border; denomination '10 Pfg.' repeated at each corner. A central oval intaglio-style portrait of Friedrich Engels, bearded and in dark coat, is flanked by two pairs of heraldic shields bearing the letters 'S P D' in red on gold. The issuer name 'EMDEN' appears in large spaced capitals along the lower margin. |
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Emden's Social Democratic Party issued this note as part of a "Werbewoche" — a recruitment and propaganda week — making it one of the relatively few pieces of German Notgeld explicitly tied to a political party rather than a municipality or commercial enterprise. Most Notgeld of this period was issued by towns and businesses scrambling to cover small-denomination shortages; a party-issued piece with a declared political purpose is a narrower category.
The 1921 dating places it squarely in the Weimar inflationary run-up, before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–23 rendered low-denomination paper essentially worthless within months of printing.