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25 Pfennig Sozialdemokratische Werbewoche
| Issuer | Sozialdemokratische Partei, Emden (Prussian province of Hanover) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 98 x 69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Sozialdemokratische Werbewoche vom 4.-11. Dezember 1921 Wilhelm Liebknecht Die Kränze modern, und die Schatten steigen Um deines Hügels stumme Einsamkeit Uns aber ist, als wollt' aus lichten Weiten Sturmkündend deine Kraft sich um uns breiten Ein Kämpfergruß aus der Unendlichkeit Dieser Schein gilt während dieser Zeit als Zahlungsmittel S.P.D. 1918 1921 |
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| Reverse lettering | Sozialdemokratische Partei 25 Pfg. Wilhelm Liebknecht 9. Novbr. 1921 EMDEN Hier dieser Schein, so leicht und klein Drückt unsre Feind' wie Felsgestein SPD |
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German political parties issuing their own emergency money during the Notgeld period was not unheard of, but the SPD doing so in Emden is a sharp illustration of how thoroughly the Notgeld phenomenon had penetrated civic and organizational life by 1921. This note was issued specifically to fund a Social Democratic promotional week — "Werbewoche" meaning a membership or publicity drive — making it propaganda material and circulating currency simultaneously. Emden's SPD chapter was operating in a strongly working-class port town, which gave the exercise a particular local resonance.
The DeNG classification places it firmly within the documented Notgeld corpus rather than treating it as ephemera, though the print run almost certainly was small.