50 Pfennig

Canth — now Kąty Wrocławskie in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld during the inflation-era municipal scrip wave that swept German towns between 1916 and 1922. The Stadt-Sparkasse, a municipal savings institution rather than a commercial bank, was the issuing authority, which places this firmly in the civic emergency currency tradition rather than private commercial scrip.

Grube & Schneider operated out of Freiburg in Schlesien — present-day Świebodzice — a small regional printer whose output was almost entirely confined to Lower Silesian Notgeld issues. The single signature, Soppe, almost certainly belongs to a Sparkasse director or authorized signatory of the period, though no fuller biographical record has been traced.