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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Domnau (City of Domnau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a panoramic woodcut-style view of Domnau's war-ruined townscape as destroyed by Russian forces in 1914, framed by an oak-leaf and acorn border in yellow-ochre. Lower left bears the municipal eagle arms; lower centre carries an issuance cartouche dated Domnau, 1. August 1921 with two manuscript signatures. Denomination numeral 50 Pfennig appears in a box at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Central woodcut vignette presents the rebuilt town square of Domnau with the Rathaus (town hall) and a commercial building in the foreground and the parish church tower rising behind, all in a linear engraving style on cream paper. Vertical side panels carry commemorative inscriptions flanking the scene. Denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" is lettered in Gothic script across the lower panel. |
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Domnau was a small East Prussian market town — fewer than 2,000 residents — that issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany after the First World War. Municipal Notgeld of this type was technically illegal under Reichsbank regulations but was tolerated, even encouraged by local authorities, because the alternative was economic paralysis at the retail level.
Flemming-Wiskott in Glogau was among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of small Silesian and East Prussian municipalities. The Glogau connection is worth noting: the firm printed for civic clients across a wide geographic radius, which explains why notes from towns this small achieved any print quality at all.