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20 Pfennig EDEKA
| Issuer | EDEKA Zentral-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft e.G.m.b.H., Berlin |
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| In circulation to | 1 July 1921 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a repeating light-blue underprint of the EDEKA diamond logo and lettering across the entire field. At upper left, a bold diamond-shaped vignette bears the EDEKA trademark with the full corporate name 'Zentral-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft e.G.m.b.H. Berlin' inscribed within. The denomination '20 Pfennig' is set in large bold letterpress type at centre-right, beneath the heading 'Edeka-Gutschein im Werte von', with the validity date 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921' and a disclaimer clause printed in smaller text along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Paul Zimmermann Colonialwaren und Delikatessen Wittenberg, Bez. Halle Gottesgaben-Str. 41–43 |
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EDEKA — the Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler — began issuing its own small-denomination paper scrip during the severe coin shortages of the early 1920s, when German hyperinflation had made Reichsbank coinage effectively vanish from circulation. Retailers across the country issued Notgeld as a practical substitute, and EDEKA's cooperative structure made it straightforward to distribute such tokens across its member stores. The 20 Pfennig denomination targeted the smallest everyday transactions — the kind of purchases where no merchant could afford to turn a customer away for lack of change.
The cooperative was founded in Hamburg in 1907 and had relocated its central purchasing office to Berlin by the time these notes were circulating.