10 Pfennig

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.