50 Pfennigs

Wettin an der Saale, a small town on the Saale River northwest of Halle, issued this note during the Kleingeldnotgeld wave of 1921 — a period when chronic small-denomination coin shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency scrip. The Magistrat had legal authority to issue such notes under the tolerant framework the Weimar government extended to local bodies precisely because the Reichsbank couldn't keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough.

E. Urban was among the regional designers who supplied artwork to multiple issuing towns, which means this design may share compositional elements with notes from neighboring municipalities — worth checking against other Urban-attributed Saale-region issues.