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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksamt Laufen (District Office of Laufen, Upper Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-gold tinted Notgeld note divided into three vertical panels by ruled borders. The central panel bears a detailed line-engraved vignette of a hilltop church with a clock tower, stone steps, and surrounding landscape, captioned 'aus TEISENDORF ob.B.' at the foot. The left panel carries the denomination '25 PFENNIG NOTGELD / BEZIRKS: AMT LAUFEN / IN OB.BAYERN' in bold Gothic lettering, with a lower cartouche depicting Saint Rupert in bishop's vestments with red-and-gold highlights, inscribed 'St. RUPERT'. The right panel repeats '25 PFENNIG' with the validity clause 'DIE GÜLTIGKEIT ERLISCHT EIN MONAT nach ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANTGABE', surmounted by the blue-and-white Bavarian lozenge coat of arms with lion supporter in the lower cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1920 |
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Bezirksamt Laufen issued this Notgeld note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1920, when hoarding of metal coinage had left ordinary retail transactions nearly impossible to conduct. District offices, municipalities, and even private businesses across Bavaria took matters into their own hands, printing low-denomination emergency paper in quantities calibrated to local needs rather than national monetary policy.
Laufen sits on the Salzach directly on the Austrian border — a detail that made interoperability with neighboring Oberndorf practically unavoidable and gave locally issued scrip an unusually short effective range.