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15 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (Lebensmittelausgabestelle) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 15 Heller |
| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text note with an ornamental dotted and scrollwork border. A vignette of a basket of eggs appears at the lower centre. The full redemption text is set in Gothic blackletter script across the body of the note, dated Eferding, 1. Juni 1920, with a facsimile Bürgermeister signature at the lower right. |
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Eferding's wartime food distribution office — the Lebensmittelausgabestelle — was still issuing small-denomination emergency scrip into 1920, well after the armistice, because the postwar supply crisis in Upper Austria outlasted the war itself. These Heller notes functioned as rationing tokens tied to the food allocation system rather than as general-purpose currency, which kept them in tight local circulation and largely out of wider trade.
L. Haase's workshop in Linz produced a number of similar municipal issues for Upper Austrian towns during this period. The notes rarely traveled far.