10 Heller Lofer

Lofer is a small market town in the Salzburg district of St. Johann, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Kriegsnotgeld — during the First World War when coins vanished from circulation almost immediately after August 1914. The Wagner press in Innsbruck handled a significant volume of this municipal work across the Tyrol and Salzburg regions, producing notes for communities that had no other means of making change.

The JPR0560b designation places this within the Jaksc cataloguing of Austrian notgeld, a specialist reference that remains the primary tool for this material. Ten Heller was among the most common denominations issued — small enough to replace the copper and nickel coins that disappeared first.