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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Dommitzsch (City of Dommitzsch) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green notgeld printed on paper with a wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field. To the left, a vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of a multi-storey civic building with a tiled roof and ornate fenestration, overlaid at its base by a large circular coin-style medallion bearing the numeral '50' and the legend 'PFENNIGE'. To the right, the issuing authority is inscribed in bold Fraktur script as 'Stadt Dommitzsch Elbe', above a boxed redemption text, the issue date 'Dommitzsch, d. 15. Nov. 1920', the authority legend 'DER MAGISTRAT', and two facsimile signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Dommitzsch Elbe 50 PFENNIGE Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bei der Stadthauptkasse Dommitzsch. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden. Dommitzsch, d. 15. Nov. 1920 DER MAGISTRAT |
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Dommitzsch is a small Elbe river town in Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued Notgeld in 1920 to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had plagued everyday commerce since the war years. The Reichsbank could not keep up with demand; local authorities filled the gap themselves, often with whatever printer was nearest.
These municipal 50 Pfennig pieces were typically printed in short runs, redeemed quickly, and discarded — survival in any quantity is more a function of collector hoarding at the time than of genuine rarity.