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50 Pfennig - Laufen
| Issuer | Bezirksamt Laufen (District Office of Laufen, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Weight | 4.1 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a figural scene depicting Saint Rupert (Rupertus), patron saint of the Rupertiwinkel region of Bavaria, shown as a robed bishop seated or kneeling and holding a pastoral staff (crozier) in his right hand. To the upper left of the saint, a circular heraldic shield bearing the arms of Laufen is prominently displayed, while a barrel — an attribute traditionally associated with Saint Rupert — appears in the lower left field. A scrolling banner in the lower portion of the field carries the legend 'NOTGELD DES RUPERTIWINKELS', identifying this as emergency money of the Rupertiwinkel district. The design is executed in low relief with a folk-art aesthetic typical of Bavarian Notgeld issues of 1918. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued in 1918 by the district administration of Laufen — a small Bavarian town on the Salzach river, directly across from the Austrian town of Oberndorf — this is Notgeld, emergency coinage produced locally when the Imperial German government could no longer guarantee adequate small-denomination coin supply during the final year of the war. Zinc had become the fallback metal across hundreds of such municipal issues as copper and nickel were consumed by armaments production. The nickel-plated variant listed under the Menzel reference likely reflects an inconsistent finish applied at the point of striking rather than a deliberate compositional change.