50 Pfennig

Tauberbischofsheim is a small administrative town in Baden, and this 1918 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz emergency — the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany as metal coinage disappeared into hoarding and war industry. Municipalities, businesses, and transit companies were authorized to fill the gap with locally issued Notgeld, and thousands did. Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei in Stuttgart handled a significant volume of this municipal work across Baden and Württemberg, producing notes for dozens of small issuers from essentially the same jobbing print infrastructure.

The series was never intended to outlast the war economy, and most were redeemed and pulped by 1919.