15 Heller Eferding

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.