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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Dommitzsch (City of Dommitzsch) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 85 × 58 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed from the same plate as the obverse, producing an identical design: a guilloche border surrounds a line-engraved vignette of the town hall at left, the large circular '10 PFENNIGE' denomination device at lower left, the Gothic 'Stadt Dommitzsch Elbe' heading at upper right, the redemption text panel, the date, and the magistrate's authority line with facsimile signatures. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Dommitzsch Elbe Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bei der Stadthauptkasse Dommitzsch. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekannt ge- macht werden. Dommitzsch, d. 15. Nov. 1920 DER MAGISTRAT |
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Dommitzsch is a small town on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to printing its own Kleingeldscheine in 1920 when the postwar coin shortage left everyday transactions nearly impossible. These fractional emergency notes were never intended to circulate beyond the issuing town — and in most cases, they didn't. The practical ceiling was the local market, the railway station kiosk, the corner shop.
Collector demand for complete municipal sets actually drove overproduction in some towns. Whether Dommitzsch printed to need or to sell to collectors is worth asking.