50 Pfennig

Orsoy is a small Rhine town — today absorbed into Rheinberg — that like hundreds of other German municipalities resorted to issuing its own emergency currency during the postwar coin shortage. The Pfennigmangel of 1919–1922 was acute enough that towns with populations in the low thousands were commissioning private printers to produce legal-tender substitutes. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren were among the more prolific suppliers of this Notgeld work, handling orders for municipalities across the Rhineland.

The reference suffix variants (1a-3/3 and 1a-2/3) suggest this note exists in fractional print-run subsets, likely distinguished by serial number blocks or minor typographic differences rather than substantive redesign.