50 Pfennig

Eilenburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the dense wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin shortages persisted well into the early Weimar period. The Magistrat, like hundreds of other local authorities, filled the gap left by a mint system utterly unable to keep small denomination coinage in circulation — partly because the public was hoarding metal and partly because inflation was already eroding the incentive to release it.

The DeNG reference suffix ".2-6/6" indicates this is the sixth variant within a numbered subseries, suggesting the Magistrat issued multiple design iterations — not unusual for a municipality trying to deter counterfeiting or simply exhausting print runs.