50 Pfennig

Bad Doberan's 1921 Notgeld issue is among the more artistically coherent of the German municipal emergency currency series — Egon Tschirch was a Rostock-born painter with genuine regional credentials, not a commercial illustrator hired for the work. His involvement gives the issue a documentary weight that purely decorative Notgeld typically lacks.

By 1921 the Notgeld phenomenon had largely shifted from genuine small-change necessity — that crisis peaked in 1918–19 — into deliberate collector series printed in excess of local need. Whether Doberan's issue was primarily functional or already aimed at the philatelic trade is a question the survival numbers would need to answer.