50 Pfennig Böttger Series

Schleiz issued this Böttger series notgeld in 1921 as part of the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Thuringia during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar years. Johann Friedrich Böttger — the Saxon alchemist who became the first European to produce true hard-paste porcelain — had a direct connection to the region, and Schleiz's choice to theme a notgeld series around him was locally deliberate, not decorative tourism.

The print date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a cataloging or data error — that date falls at the final collapse of the Third Reich, a context entirely incompatible with 1921 Weimar notgeld production.