50 Pfennig

Rudolstadt's 50 Pfennig Notgeld was a local emergency issue, one of the thousands of small-denomination paper substitutes that flooded Germany between 1914 and the early 1920s when coin metal was diverted to war production and municipal authorities were left to fill the gap themselves. Lorsch & Nachbar, a local Rudolstadt printer, produced the note — the kind of arrangement that was common in Thuringia, where towns frequently contracted nearby commercial printers rather than specialist security firms.

The DeNG reference placing this within the 1146.1a series identifies it as a standard municipal issue, not one of the later collectible Serienscheine produced deliberately for the philatelic trade.