10 Pfennig

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.