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20 Heller Eferding - small issue
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Eferding Die Stadtgemeinde Eferding haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 24. November 1919 für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein Zwanzig 20 Heller vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde beim städtischen Kammeramte einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: Die Nachahmung dies. Scheines wird ges. bestr. |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on white paper, the reverse carries green corner leaf ornaments within a zigzag border frame. A central oval vignette, enclosed by a dotted border and flanked by vine sprigs, presents a panoramic townscape of Eferding with a prominent church steeple rising above surrounding rooftops and trees beneath a clouded sky. The year "1919" appears on a ribbon banner at the top of the vignette, and the town name "Eferding" is inscribed on a scroll banner at its base. |
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Eferding is a small Upper Austrian market town, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — in the immediate postwar years when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The 1919 issues were a practical response to a genuine liquidity problem, not a commemorative or speculative exercise.
A print run of over twelve million for a town of roughly three thousand inhabitants is the striking figure here. That number reflects centralized bulk printing for regional distribution rather than purely local need — a common arrangement in Austrian Notgeld production of this period, where private printers fulfilled orders for multiple municipalities simultaneously.