1 Pfennig EDEKA

EDEKA — Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwaren-Einzelhändler — began as exactly this kind of regional purchasing cooperative, and Demmin's Vorpommerischer Einkaufsverein was among the early constituent groups that would eventually consolidate into the national retail giant still operating today. This 1 Pfennig note is cooperative scrip, not state currency: issued by a grocers' buying collective to manage small transactions internally, almost certainly during the coin shortage years of the early Weimar period. Printed locally by W. Grzellius rather than a specialist notgeld printer, the production values reflect that economy.