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15 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the full Notgeld text in blackletter (Fraktur) script within an ornate cartouche formed by interlaced foliate corner ornaments. At the foot of the text block, a vignette in solid black shows a wicker basket filled with eggs, serving as a thematic complement to the agricultural motif on the obverse. A facsimile signature appears to the lower right of the text, with the initials 'L.H. & J.' printed in the lower right corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Lebensmittelausgabestelle d. Stadtgem. Eferding Die Stadtgem. Eferding haftet für die Einlösung dieses Notgeldes im gesetzlichen Bargelde bis zum öffentlich verlautbarten Endtermin. Eferding am 1. Juni 1920 Nachahmung Bürgermeister wird bestraft. |
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Eferding is one of the oldest market towns in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to combat the chronic small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These hyperlocal emissions were authorized under emergency provisions and typically circulated only within the issuing community — a greengrocer in Linz would have had little use for a Eferding Heller note.
The designer credit to L. Haase jun. suggests local artistic production rather than a commercial printer's stock design, which was common for smaller towns trying to distinguish their issues.