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10 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Eferding. Die Stadtgemeinde Eferding haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 24. November 1919 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe 10 Zehn Heller 10 in gesetzlichem Bar- gelde beim städtischen Kämmereramte einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Monochrome brown vignette printed on unbleached paper, framed by an arched architectural opening through which a townscape is visible. The scene renders a view along a street toward a church with a tall steeple, with period buildings to the right and figures in the foreground, evoking a historical depiction of Eferding circa 1800. Curved banner inscriptions appear within the arch at upper left and upper right. |
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Eferding is one of the oldest towns in Upper Austria, but its 1919 Heller notes exist for a blunt bureaucratic reason: the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left Austria with a crippling small-denomination coin shortage, and municipal authorities across the country were authorized to fill the gap with locally issued Notgeld. Eferding was among hundreds of Austrian Stadtgemeinden that did so.
The print run of over 12 million for a town of a few thousand is not a misprint — these small-denomination emergency notes circulated in enormous quantities relative to their face value, and most were redeemed and pulped once the federal coinage supply stabilized in the early 1920s.