50 Pfennig

Neidenburg — now Nidzica in northeastern Poland — was firmly German territory in 1920, sitting in the East Prussian borderlands that had just survived the chaos of the Masurian plebiscite period. This Notgeld issue was part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the war, driven by a shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coinage rather than any local financial crisis.

Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling contracts for dozens of municipalities across Prussia. The Glogau listing as "Poland" in modern catalogs reflects the city's postwar fate — it became Głogów after 1945 — but in 1920 it was unambiguously German Silesia.