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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Dornburg (City of Dornburg, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 65 × 44 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width woodcut-style vignette of the Dornburg Rathaus (Town Hall), labeled 'Rathaus' in the upper left corner, rendered in black line work over a grey-green underprint with stylized cloud motifs. The lower panel bears the denomination numerals '10' in red at both sides flanking the issuing legend 'Notgeld der Stadt Dornburg' in Gothic blackletter script. |
| Reverse lettering | Rathaus 10 Notgeld der Stadt Dornburg 10 |
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Dornburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the flood of municipal small-denomination paper that appeared across Germany when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The Reichsbank had effectively abandoned low-value coinage by this point, leaving towns like Dornburg to fill the gap themselves — legally, if informally.
The Thuringian town of Dornburg sits above the Saale river and was home to three ducal palaces, a fact that local Notgeld issuers across the region frequently exploited for design purposes. Whether this series did the same is a question the design record answers, not the catalog entry.
The GrM reference places this within Grabowski-Mehl's standard Notgeld classification — the suffix 1/3 indicating the first of three variants in this denomination grouping.