50 Pfennig

Kahla is a small Saale valley town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the hyperinflationary pressure of 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to plug the coin shortage that had made fractional currency effectively unusable. E. Nister in Nürnberg was a well-established commercial printer with a long history in illustrated publishing, pressed into notgeld work by sheer volume of municipal demand during this period.

The April 1945 print date in the metadata is almost certainly a cataloging or data entry error — this is a 1921 notgeld issue, and E. Nister was not operating in any normal capacity in the final days of the Third Reich.