50 Pfennig Sparkasse

Dömitz is a small town on the Elbe in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, its savings bank issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of coins that followed wartime metal requisitioning and postwar economic dislocation. The Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz had no special authority to issue currency in any meaningful sense; it was filling a practical void that the Reichsbank was unable to address at the local level.

These hyper-local issues were printed in enormous variety, often by small regional printers, and survivorship is essentially random.