50 Pfennig Landkreis Bochum

Landkreis Bochum's notgeld issues of 1921 came directly from the district committee — the Kreis-Ausschuss — rather than from a municipal savings bank or chamber of commerce, which was the more common issuing route for Westphalian small-denomination emergency currency during the postwar coin shortage. The printer, F. A. Gimmerthal, operated out of Langendreer, then still a separate industrial township east of Bochum proper before its later incorporation into the city.

Gimmerthal's notgeld output was almost entirely local and regionally distributed, making these notes considerably less common in collector circuits than the heavily marketed series from larger specialist printers like Druck & Verlag.