50 Pfennig

Bad Langensalza, a small spa town in Thuringia, issued a flood of Notgeld in the early 1920s alongside hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to cover the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued the Weimar Republic's first years. The 50 Pfennig denomination was among the most commonly self-issued values — low enough to serve everyday transactions, high enough to justify the printing cost.

Langensalza is better remembered historically as the site of the 1866 battle where Hanoverian forces briefly defeated Prussian troops before surrendering three days later, effectively ending Hanoverian independence. Whether that local pride fed into the note's imagery is unrecorded.