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50 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Oftering (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Oftering über 50 Heller 50 Die Gemeinde Oftering gibt laut Gemeindebeschluß vom 18. April 1920 zur Abhilfe des Kleingeldmangels Gutscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus. Für die Einlösung dieser Scheine innerhalb der bestimmten Frist in gesetzl. Bargeld haftet die Gemeinde. Der Bürgermeister: Scheine ohne Gemeindestempel sind ungültig. Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Protection type | Municipality stamp required |
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Oftering is a small village in the Linz-Land district, and its municipal notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian small-change emergency currency that flooded the country between 1919 and 1922. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 left communities at every level — down to parishes and market towns — scrambling to cover the absence of circulating coins. Oftering's solution was unremarkable in type but locally authorized: the municipality stamp was the only security feature separating a valid note from a forgery, a thin barrier by any measure.
The 0706a designation in the Jaksch catalog indicates this is the first recorded type for the denomination from this issuer. Many such village-level pieces survive only in small quantities, having been redeemed and destroyed once coin circulation normalized.