50 Pfennig

Roßbach was a small rural commune in the Querfurt district of Prussian Saxony, and like thousands of German municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency small change during the Kleingeldnot — the acute coin shortage that followed the disruption of metal supplies in the First World War. The Hofdruckerei Gerth & Oppenrieder in Gera was a regional court printer that took on substantial Notgeld contract work during this period, serving dozens of Thuringian and Saxon communities that lacked access to larger printing houses.

The DeNG reference indicates four known varieties within this sub-series, distinguished by date, color, or overprint differences rather than denomination.