50 Pfennigs

Friedrichsbrunn was a small spa village in the Harz, better known as a retreat for the urban middle class than as an issuing authority for emergency currency. Like hundreds of German municipalities during the Kleingeldnot of 1920–1921, it authorized its own Notgeld simply because small-denomination Reichsmark coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or rendered worthless by inflation before it had peaked.

H. Meyerding of Quedlinburg was a regional job printer who handled Notgeld commissions for multiple Harz-area communities during this period. These small local print runs are often the most fragile part of the documentary record — low print quantities, handled by tourists as souvenirs as much as by residents as currency.