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75 Pfennig Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag - A4: Togo
| Issuer | Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag (Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries a bold vignette of two silhouetted palm trees flanking a large circular sun in vivid orange and yellow tones, beneath which a stylised seascape is enclosed within a V-shaped geometric frame; the dates 1682, 1884, and 1918 are placed around the sun disc, with circular medallions at either side bearing the Hamburg castle arms at left and a colonial flag emblem at right. The denomination '75 PFENNIG' is set in large bold letterpress type at centre bottom, accompanied by the issue authority 'DEUTSCH-HANSEATISCHER KOLONIALGEDENKTAG / HAMBURG BERLIN BREMEN', the date '4.XI.1921', Series A IV notation, and validity expiry '31. März 1922'. A manuscript signature of the management, attributed to Franz Grewe, appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | TOGO 75 PFENNIG DORF BEI MISSAHOHE |
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The Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag — loosely, the German Hanseatic Colonial Commemoration Day — was a 1921 fundraising event organized across Hamburg, Berlin, and Bremen to sustain what remained of German colonial advocacy after Versailles stripped Germany of every overseas territory in 1919. These notgeld-adjacent pieces were issued as promotional scrip rather than circulating currency, sold or exchanged at the event to raise funds for colonial revisionist organizations pressing for restoration of Germany's former possessions.
The Togo piece is one of a series covering individual former colonies. Franz Grewe signed as issuing authority, not as engraver. The colonial commemoration series remains a documented artifact of the organized Kolonialbewegung of the early Weimar years.