50 Pfennig

Rudolstadt's 1921 Notgeld issue came at the height of Germany's postwar small-change crisis, when coin metal was being hoarded and municipal authorities across Thuringia were left to fill the gap themselves. Lorsch & Nachbar, a local Rudolstadt printer, handled the job — one of hundreds of provincial firms pressed into producing emergency currency for their own towns, with quality and longevity varying accordingly.

The DeNG reference suffix variants (1a through the series) reflect differences in paper stock and print runs across what was ultimately a short-lived issue, rendered obsolete once Reichsbank reforms began clawing back circulation authority from the municipalities in 1922.