50 Pfennig

Ostseebad Müritz was a small Baltic resort town on the Mecklenburg coast — today part of the larger municipality of Ostseebad Kühlungsborn. This note is a piece of Notgeld, the locally issued emergency currency that flooded Germany in 1921–1922 as chronic coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Badeverwaltung — the resort's administrative body overseeing spa and bathing operations — was an unusual issuing authority, but not without precedent in resort towns where tourism revenue gave the administration practical standing.

Egon Tschirch was a Rostock-based painter known for his Baltic coastal scenes, and his involvement here was entirely typical of the period's better-produced Notgeld, where local artists were commissioned to produce notes that doubled as collectible souvenirs for summer visitors.