50 Pfennig

Strelitz-Alt — the older of the two towns that would merge in 1931 to form Neustrelitz — issued this note during the height of the German Kleingeldnot, the small-change famine that paralyzed retail commerce in the early Weimar years. Coin metal had been hoarded and melted throughout the war, and by 1921 municipalities across Mecklenburg were printing their own fractional notes out of practical necessity, with no central authorization beyond local desperation.

Hofbuchdrucker Bohls Nachfolger — literally the successor firm to the court printer Bohl — was the obvious choice for a job like this, being already established in Neustrelitz for official printing work.