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20 Pfennig EDEKA
| Issuer | EDEKA Zentral-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft e.G.m.b.H., Berlin |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain white paper bearing a violet rubber-stamp overprint applied by a participating retailer. The stamp reads 'Paul Zimmermann / Colonialwaren und Delikatessen / Wittenberg, Bez. Halle / Gottesgaben-Str. 41–43', identifying the specific EDEKA-affiliated grocery and delicatessen store that placed this voucher into circulation. |
| 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.