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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Domnau (City of Domnau), East Prussia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a line-engraved townscape of reconstructed Domnau market square, with multi-storey bourgeois buildings and a prominent gabled town hall. Decorative foliate border panels in ochre frame the composition on all sides. The denomination legend is set in bold Gothic lettering across the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Domnau i/Ostpr. Fünf und zwanzig Pfennig |
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Domnau was a small market town in the Pregelland district of East Prussia, the kind of municipality that turned to notgeld not out of financial sophistication but sheer necessity — the postwar coin shortage hit rural eastern communities particularly hard, and local authorities were often left to fill the gap themselves. Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific printers of municipal notgeld during this period, handling commissions from dozens of small towns across Prussia and Silesia.
The 1921 date places this in the later phase of the notgeld phenomenon, when many issues had already crossed from utility into deliberate collectibility. Whether Domnau intended this for circulation or the philatelic trade is a fair question.