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20 Heller Eferding - small issue
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0152IIIa-20 |
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| 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. |
| Reverse lettering | 1919 Eferding |
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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.