50 Pfennigs

Wesel's 1918 Notgeld issue belongs to the first major wave of municipal emergency currency in Germany, triggered by the wartime coin shortage that had stripped small denominations from everyday commerce well before the Armistice. Towns were authorized to issue their own scrip to fill the gap, and hundreds did — which means Wesel's output competes for collector attention against an enormous field of contemporary municipal issues.

Printed locally, these notes rarely traveled far and were redeemed quickly once the crisis passed, making circulated survivors more common than uncirculated ones.