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50 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an ornate border with scrollwork corner embellishments. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Eferding dated 1920, with a church steeple and rooftops visible across the skyline. To the left stands a robed figure carrying a banner, and to the right a craftsman or blacksmith figure is shown at work; the denomination inscription in Gothic Fraktur script runs along the top, and the issuer legend in the same script appears along the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse border design, with circular denomination cartouches bearing the numeral '50' at each corner. The central vignette again presents a panoramic view of Eferding, captioned 'Eferding zur Zeit des Bauernkrieges', flanked by two period-costumed figures bearing staffs. Above the vignette, a block of redemption text in Gothic script references the municipal council resolution of 24 November 1919, while below appears the Bürgermeister signature line and an anti-counterfeiting notice; the printer's imprint is set outside the lower border. |
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One of hundreds of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues produced in the chaotic period following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, this note was printed by V. Langhammer in Linz on behalf of the small Upper Austrian market town of Eferding. The acute coin shortage of 1918–1920 forced local authorities across the former empire to issue their own small-denomination emergency money — the central government simply could not produce enough Heller coinage to meet everyday transactional needs.
Eferding's population at the time was well under 3,000. That a town this size was operating its own currency, however temporarily, speaks to how completely the postwar monetary infrastructure had broken down.