50 Pfennig

Neubukow is a small town in Mecklenburg with one genuine claim to numismatic fame: it was the birthplace of Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist who excavated Troy. The city leaned into this — Schliemann's connection was a point of local pride, and Tschirch, a Rostock-based painter and graphic artist with strong regional ties, was a natural choice for designing Notgeld that carried some cultural weight rather than purely functional filler.

Egon Tschirch produced some of the more artistically considered Notgeld in the Mecklenburg region during the early 1920s inflationary period. Whether this note was issued as a single denomination or part of a series with companion values is worth confirming before cataloging as a standalone piece.