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15 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed on blue paper, the obverse is framed by a dotted border and presents the denomination '15 Heller' in bold Gothic lettering at the top. The central vignette shows a rooster standing in a farmyard setting with a fence visible in the background, rendered in a dark brownish-black letterpress impression. A small artist's credit appears at the lower margin reading 'L. HARRIS'. |
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| Obverse lettering | 15 Heller |
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Eferding, a small market town in Upper Austria, was among hundreds of Austrian municipalities that printed their own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the currency disruption that followed the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The 15 Heller denomination is characteristic of this period, when coin shortages made even the smallest transactions difficult and local authorities stepped in where the central government could not.
Municipal issues from towns this size were typically printed in limited runs by local printers with no specialist banknote experience. Survival rates vary considerably — some were redeemed and destroyed, others simply never returned.