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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtschultheißenamt Laupheim (City of Laupheim) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD 50 PFENNIG Laupheim, den 5. Juli 1919 STADTSCHULTHEISSENAMT Die Gültigkeitsdauer erlischt mit dem 1. Juli 1921 |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic silhouette vignette of the Laupheim townscape — church towers and rooftops rendered in fine letterpress — set within a broad oval frame against a plain background, with the town name LAUPHEIM lettered in large bold capitals along the lower edge. The legend 'Stadtgemeinde' appears in stylised script at the top centre, while a dotted oval cartouche at the centre of the vignette bears the denomination '50 Pfennig,' repeated again in each of the four corners within the surrounding guilloche border. The printer's and designer's credits appear in small type along the lower margin. |
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Laupheim's 50 Pfennig Notgeld of 1919 is a small-town emergency issue from the chaotic period following the armistice, when the collapse of the imperial monetary system left municipal authorities scrambling to cover a shortage of small change. The Stadtschultheißenamt — the city's chief administrative office — authorized local printer A. Berger to produce the note, keeping production entirely within the town itself.
The designer credit to Juc Sauer of Essen-Alstetten is the more curious detail here. Commissioning an outside artist for a low-denomination scrip note was not universal practice, and suggests Laupheim was participating in the emerging Notgeld collector market that developed rapidly after 1919.