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30 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note enclosed within a decorative serrated border running the full perimeter. The denomination '30 Heller' is set in Gothic display type at the top, above a central vignette of a standing cow beside a resting calf rendered in an engraved pastoral style. A two-line Gothic-type inscription at the foot identifies the issuing municipal food-distribution authority of Eferding. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Lebensmittelausgabestelle der Stadtgem. Eferding Die Stadtgemeinde Eferding haftet für die Einlösung des Notgeldes in gesetzlichem Bargeld bis zum öffentlich verlautbarten Endtermin. Eferding am 1. Juni 1920 Nachahmung wird bestraft. Bürgermeister Milch |
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Eferding is a small market town in Upper Austria with a population that barely exceeded 2,000 in 1920 — which makes the municipal government's decision to issue its own emergency currency entirely typical of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian and German towns after the First World War. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone system left local authorities scrambling to plug coin shortages with whatever printing capacity they had at hand, and Eferding produced its own small-denomination scrip rather than wait for central supply.
The 30 Heller denomination sits in the middle of the most common Notgeld range — small enough to substitute for missing coins, large enough to be worth printing.