50 Pfennig Industry Series - Porzellanindustrie

Großbreitenbach's notgeld series was built around the town's identity as a center of Thuringian porcelain manufacture — an industry that had sustained the area since the mid-eighteenth century. Each denomination in the Industry Series was assigned a different trade subject, and the Porzellanindustrie note was the obvious anchor piece for a town whose economy depended heavily on kiln work and decorative ware production.

Carl O. Heyder in Gehren was a regional printer responsible for a considerable volume of Thuringian notgeld, and P. Neu's design credit appears across several pieces in this run. The 1921 date places it in the second wave of municipal emergency currency, issued well after the initial 1919–1920 flood — by this point municipalities had become considerably more deliberate about presentation, treating the notes partly as collectibles from the outset.