50 Pfennig

Schopfheim's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of thousands of municipal emergency notes produced during the post-WWI currency chaos, when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coin and paper to keep local commerce moving. Poppen & Ortmann in Freiburg were active printers of regional Notgeld throughout Baden, and their lithographic work for smaller municipalities tended toward competent regional imagery rather than the elaborate collector-bait designs some cities commissioned deliberately to profit from the Notgeld craze.

The embossed municipal seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — cheap but locally authoritative. R. Specht's designer credit is uncommon enough to appear in specialist Notgeld references as a named local contributor.