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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Laufen (City of Laufen, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 STADT LAUFEN 50 DER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANNTGABE. LAUFEN, 20.X.1920 STADTRAT Fuchs 50 PFENNIG DRUCK: A. SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG/ALLGÄU |
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| Signature(s) | Fuchs |
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Stadt Laufen issued this 50 Pfennig Notgeld in 1920 as part of the broader German municipal emergency currency phenomenon driven by chronic small-coin shortages in the postwar years. Laufen sits on the Salzach directly across from the Austrian town of Oberndorf — the same Oberndorf where "Stille Nacht" was first performed in 1818, though that curiosity belongs to Austrian jurisdiction, not Bavarian.
The printer, A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, handled Notgeld production for numerous small Swabian and Bavarian municipalities during this period. Single signatory issues authenticated by a "Fuchs" are common to Laufen's 1920 series.