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15 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0152Vh-15 |
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| Obverse lettering | 15 Heller |
| Reverse description | Red-brown letterpress text on buff paper, framed by a decorative wavy border with foliate corner ornaments. The full text block carries the Notgeld redemption guarantee of the Stadtgemeinde Eferding, dated 1. Juni 1920, with a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. A small vignette of a basket of eggs appears at the bottom centre, with the monogram 'L.H.' below. |
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Eferding is a small Upper Austrian market town, and its 1920 Heller notgeld issues belong to the broader wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. With the Vienna central authority unable to supply adequate small change, thousands of Austrian towns — including many far smaller than Eferding — printed their own fractional notes under legal provisions introduced in 1919 and 1920.
The engraver credit to L. Haase points to local or regional production, consistent with the "Printed: Eferding" attribution. Many comparable Upper Austrian issues used nearby provincial printers rather than Vienna-based firms, keeping costs and lead times down during a period of acute economic instability.