50 Pfennig

Ditfurt is a small village in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank simply could not produce enough fractional coinage to meet everyday demand in the post-WWI inflationary spiral, and the gap fell to local governments, savings banks, even individual businesses to fill.

The DeNG reference places this within a numbered series of six notes issued by Ditfurt, suggesting a coordinated local issue rather than a one-off stopgap. Many Harz-region Notgeld issues were printed by small provincial firms whose work varied considerably in quality and registration accuracy.