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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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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and blue on cream paper and carries the denomination '15 Heller' in large red Gothic lettering across the upper portion of the note. Below the inscription, a vignette in blue letterpress renders a hen with chicks in a rustic farmyard setting. The entire composition is enclosed within a dotted blue border, with the imprint 'L. HAASE JUN.' at the lower right and 'DUKA LINZ' at the lower left. |
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| 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's wartime and postwar small-change crisis was severe enough that the municipality had to print its own fractional notes — the national coinage had all but vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down. These Notgeld issues were a practical local fix, not a monetary experiment. The 15 Heller denomination is among the more unusual fractional values; most Austrian municipal series clustered around 10, 20, and 50.
Printed locally by a town with a population that barely cleared 3,000 at the time, the production quality was predictably modest. L. Haase jun. is known only from this and related Eferding pieces — almost certainly a local commercial printer rather than a specialist banknote firm.