50 Pfennig

Silberberg — now Srebrna Góra in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian garrison town whose entire claim to commercial significance in 1921 rested on its Prussian-era fortress and a shrinking local economy. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot of the early Weimar period, Silberberg issued its own emergency fractional currency because federal coinage had been hoarded or melted and the Reichsbank could not meet demand for small change.

The DeNG 1/2 catalog distinguishes two types for this issue — this is the second variant. The difference between them is typically a printing or paper stock change, though both circulated within the town itself and would have been redeemable locally.