50 Pfennig

Kreis Lippstadt was one of hundreds of German administrative districts that resorted to Notgeld when the wartime and postwar metal shortages made fractional coinage impossible to sustain. District-level issues like this occupied an awkward middle ground — more official than municipal Notgeld, but with no banking infrastructure behind them, just local administrative authority and whatever paper stock was available.

The Lippstadt district issues are not among the heavily documented series, and surviving specimens vary considerably in paper quality owing to the wartime supply constraints that affected printers throughout Westphalia.