50 Pfennig

Glatz — now Kłodzko in southwestern Poland — was a Silesian garrison town under Prussian and later German administration, and its municipal notgeld issues of 1918 reflect the acute coin shortage that hit German towns hard in the final year of the war. The city's magistrat, like hundreds of similar local authorities that year, was authorized to issue small-denomination emergency currency to keep retail trade moving as metal coinage disappeared from circulation.

The G16.1b designation within the Grabowski reference distinguishes this from closely related varieties in the same series — collector differentiation between these Glatz issues typically hinges on minor typographic or color variations rather than substantive design changes.