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| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and green gutschein note with ornate guilloche border. Upper left bears the municipal arms of Dömitz (a tower gate); the large numeral '10' sits within a central oval guilloche underprint flanked by 'PFENNIG' inscriptions. Date and issuing authority appear in the lower panel with two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT DÖMITZ i/M. 10 BASTION FRITZ REUTER: "Ja, äwer wecker Weg was de rechte?" |
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Dömitz is a small Elbe river town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, its savings bank — the Sparkasse — issued its own emergency currency during the Kleingeldnot of 1920, when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation. J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover was a well-established commercial printer with a long record of producing notgeld for municipalities across Lower Saxony and beyond; the print quality on their issues is generally more consistent than the smaller regional job printers used elsewhere.
The Grabowski reference D24.1a suggests at least one variety exists within this issue.