50 Pfennig

Pölzig is a village so small it barely registers in regional administrative records, yet like hundreds of equally obscure Thuringian municipalities it issued its own emergency currency during the Kleingeldnot of 1921 — the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar coin metal crisis. The printer, Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, was primarily a playing card manufacturer, a common choice for Notgeld commissions in the Altenburg area given their existing color printing infrastructure and proximity to dozens of issuing municipalities.

The DeNG reference indicates two design variants within this series — 1065.1 and 1065.2/3 — which is typical of Pölzig's output but worth confirming before cataloging multiples.