50 Pfennig - Höhr

Höhr, a small town in the Westerwald region, had been a center of German stoneware production for centuries before the postwar emergency coinage crisis gave local potteries an unexpected second purpose. During the Notgeld period of 1920–1922, dozens of municipalities turned to porcelain as a coinage material precisely because the regional ceramic industry could produce it cheaply and quickly — and because metal remained scarce and heavily regulated. Höhr was particularly well positioned for this, with established kiln infrastructure already running.

Porcelain Notgeld pieces fired at high temperature are notably resistant to the wear that destroys paper issues from the same period.