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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bezirksamt Laufen, Upper Bavaria |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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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. |
| Reverse description | Reverse shares the identical tripartite ochre-gold layout. The central panel presents a letterpress vignette of the main street of Markt Waging am See, with a tall baroque church tower rising above a row of townhouses, captioned 'aus MARKT WAGING a. See.' The left panel repeats the denomination and issuing text in the same Gothic letterpress style, while the lower-left vignette again shows Saint Rupert in red-accented episcopal robes labelled 'S.RUPERT'. The lower-right corner carries the Bavarian arms with lion, and the validity notice on the right panel reads 'DIE GILTIG-KEIT · ER-LISCHT EIN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTLICH-BEKANTMACH-UNG'. |
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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.