10 Pfennig

Dargun is a small town in Mecklenburg whose municipal government, like hundreds of others across Germany, was forced into emergency currency production during the Kleingeldnot — the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. Coins had been hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand for low denominations. Local Gemeinde administrations filled the gap with Notgeld, issuing their own fractional paper under no central authorization beyond practical necessity.

The Gemeinde-Vorstand series of 1921 falls into the later wave of municipal Notgeld, by which point many issues had become semi-commemorative collector fodder. Whether Dargun's 10 Pfennig circulated genuinely or was printed primarily for the collector trade is worth establishing before assigning too much circulation significance to any given example.