50 Pfennig Verein für Handel, Gewerbe und Industrie

Brunsbüttelkoog in 1922 was a small industrial town on the Elbe estuary, its economy tied to the North Sea–Baltic canal traffic and the chemical works that had expanded there during the war years. The local merchants' and industry association — the Verein für Handel, Gewerbe und Industrie — issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that plagued German commerce in the early inflation period, when metal coins were being hoarded or melted faster than the Reichsbank could replace them.

Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled an enormous volume of municipal and association Notgeld commissions between 1920 and 1923, which means production quality is consistent but the notes are rarely rare by virtue of printing alone.