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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Bezirksamt Laufen (District of Laufen, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 95.25 x 69.85 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed on tan paper with an overall decorative baroque scroll border enclosing the text. The year '1920' appears in Gothic numerals at both left and right. Two heraldic shield vignettes occupy the lower left and right corners within ornate cartouches. The denomination '50 PFENIG' is set in large Roman type at centre below the issuing authority inscription. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD BEZIRK LAUFEN TITTMONING 50 PFENIG 1920 |
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Bezirksamt Laufen was a small administrative district in Upper Bavaria, hard against the Salzach River and the Austrian border. This 50 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of German notgeld issued from 1919 onward as small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in the economic chaos following the First World War. Thousands of German municipalities, districts, and local authorities printed their own emergency issues during this period, which makes most common notgeld unremarkable as a type. What distinguishes pieces like this one is the printer.
A. Pustet of Tittmoning was primarily a Catholic publishing house, part of the Friedrich Pustet firm with deep roots in ecclesiastical printing. Finding them contracted for municipal scrip is an index of how improvised these local currency arrangements were.