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10 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red and tan, with a central oval landscape vignette showing an Alpine mountain peak rising above a wooded valley scene with conifers and a rustic bridge in the foreground, surrounded by radiating line work that fills the upper field. Large '10' numerals flank the central vignette at left and right, with 'Hl.' denomination abbreviations below each. A horizontal banner at the base carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 10 Hl. Hl. Markt Lofer, Ld. Salzburg |
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Lofer is a small market town in Salzburg province, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during World War I, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coins from circulation. The imperial government had suspended convertibility and the public was hoarding anything metallic. Local authorities were essentially left to solve the problem themselves.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a significant volume of Tyrolean and Salzburg municipal Notgeld during this period, which lends these issues a degree of printing consistency unusual for emergency currency of this kind.