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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksamt Laufen, Upper Bavaria |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on a warm ochre-gold ground, divided into three vertical panels by ruled borders. The central panel carries a letterpress vignette of the hilltop church at Teisendorf, rendered in fine line engraving with a stone stairway and retaining wall in the foreground. The left panel bears the denomination '25 PFENIG' in bold Gothic type above the issuing authority 'NOTGELD / BEZIRKS- / AMT / LAUFEN / IN / OB.BAYERN'. The lower-left vignette portrays Saint Rupert in bishop's vestments with a halo, printed with red colour accent, labelled 'S.RUPERT', while the lower-right vignette shows the Bavarian coat of arms with the lion supporter; the printer's imprint 'DRUCK: A. PUSTET. TITTMONING.' appears beneath the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 PFENIG NOTGELD BEZIRKS-AMT LAUFEN IN OB.BAYERN DIE GILTIG-KEIT ER-LISCHT EIN MONAT NACH OFFENTLICHER BEKANTGABE S.RUPERT aus TEISENDORF DRUCK: A. PUSTET. TITTMONING. |
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Bezirksamt Laufen was a rural administrative district on the Salzach river in Upper Bavaria, and like hundreds of similar local authorities across Germany and Austria, it turned to whatever printer was at hand when the small-change shortage of the early 1920s made Notgeld production a near-universal necessity. A. Pustet in Tittmoning was primarily a religious and liturgical publisher — their core business was missals and devotional texts, not banknotes. That an ecclesiastical press ended up printing emergency currency for the district administration is a neat illustration of how indiscriminate the Notgeld scramble actually was.