50 Pfennig

Wiedenbrück notgeld from the emergency currency wave of 1918, when the German imperial government effectively delegated small-denomination coinage shortfall onto municipalities, counties, and even private firms. The Kreisausschuss — the county committee — was the administrative body responsible for this issue, not a bank. That distinction mattered legally, though in practice nobody refused the notes.

J. C. König & Ebhardt was a Hannover commercial printer with deep roots in administrative and stationery work, not a security printing specialist. That said, their notgeld output during 1917–1921 was substantial, and the firm's production quality was consistent enough that forgery of low-denomination county issues was rarely worth the effort.