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75 Pfennig Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag - A6: Kamerun
| Issuer | Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag (Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a tall palm tree silhouetted against a large stylised sun rendered in red and yellow, rising over a blue sea enclosed within a triangular frame; the dates 1682, 1884, and 1918 flank the solar disc. Circular medallions at lower left and right bear the arms of Hamburg (castle) and Bremen (keys) respectively. The denomination 75 PFENNIG is set centrally in the lower text panel alongside issue and validity inscriptions, with the manuscript signature of the Geschäftsführung. |
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| Reverse description | Full-width scenic vignette in multicolour letterpress depicting a waterfront view of Viktoria (present-day Limbe) with colonial-era buildings and palm trees along the shore, a mountain range rising in the background, and a figure working beside a dugout canoe in the foreground. The denomination 75 PFENNIG appears in each of the four corners within ornate frames, and the colony name KAMERUN is inscribed across the upper border. |
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The Deutsch-Hanseatischer Kolonialgedenktag — the German-Hanseatic Colonial Remembrance Day — was a 1921 fundraising event organized jointly by Hamburg, Berlin, and Bremen to commemorate Germany's lost colonial empire, stripped away under the Treaty of Versailles. These notgeld-style pieces were not municipal emergency currency but explicitly commemorative issues, sold at the event to fund colonial revisionist advocacy groups pushing for the restitution of German overseas territories.
The Kamerun piece is one of several regional issues in the A6 series, each dedicated to a specific former colony. Franz Grewe signed the series as issuing authority rather than as a printer or engraver — his precise administrative role in the organizing committee is not fully documented.