50 Pfennig

Pößneck's 1919 emergency currency was a direct response to the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued Germany following the First World War. Municipal authorities across the country were authorized — effectively pushed — into printing their own fractional notes when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough coinage to keep local commerce moving. Pößneck, a small textile-industry town in what was then Saxe-Meiningen, was one of hundreds of German municipalities to do exactly that.

The DeNG catalogue suffix "c" indicates a recognized variety within the P30 series, likely distinguished by a printing or paper difference from the "a" and "b" variants — worth confirming against known plating data before grading.