50 Pfennig Rheinland-Pfalz, French occupation

Rhineland-Palatinate was itself a new political creation in 1947 — a French-administered Land cobbled together from parts of the former Prussian Rhine Province, the Palatinate, and portions of Hesse-Nassau. This note predates the currency reform of June 1948, which wiped out Reichsmark-era and transitional issues almost entirely. The Landesregierung had minimal monetary infrastructure and no printing heritage of its own; these Länder-level emergency issues were a stopgap while the Allied occupation authorities worked toward a unified western German currency.

The 1948 reform rendered the note obsolete within roughly a year of issue.