10 Pfennig

Lauban — now Lubań in southwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Silesian textile town that, like hundreds of German municipalities, resorted to issuing its own emergency currency during the post-WWI coin shortage. The Reichsbank's inability to keep small-denomination metal coinage in circulation drove civic authorities to authorize local Notgeld series almost as a matter of routine administration by 1920.

Gerth & Oppenrieder of Gera were a competent regional commercial printer, not one of the prestige houses; their Notgeld work tends toward the functional end of the spectrum. At 59 × 43 mm, this is among the smaller pieces in common municipal circulation issues.