50 Pfennig

Bad Suderode was a small spa town in the Harz region, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldscheine to address the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the early Weimar years. The Louis Koch firm in Halberstadt was a regional printer that handled notgeld contracts for numerous towns across the Harz and Saxony-Anhalt area — not one of the major Leipzig or Berlin houses, but competent and locally well-positioned for exactly this kind of volume work.

The DeNG reference suffix range 1a-7/10 indicates this falls within a dated series, suggesting multiple issue dates or varieties within the same denomination.