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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 | Printed in dark violet-brown on rose-pink paper, the obverse carries the denomination '50' in large Gothic numerals at upper centre, flanked by the inscriptions 'Fünfzig' to the left and 'Heller' to the right in ornate Fraktur lettering. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Eferding dated 1920, bordered by a dotted frame; a standing male figure in period costume occupies the left margin and a seated craftsman the right. The lower legend 'Gutschein der Stadt Eferding' is rendered in elaborate calligraphic Fraktur script across the full width of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Die Stadtgemeinde Eferding haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 24. November 1919 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde beim städtischen Kammeramte einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Eferding zur Zeit des Bauernkrieges. Druck V. Langhammer, Linz. |
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Eferding's 50 Heller notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg state left local governments unable to obtain sufficient small-denomination coinage. Stadtgemeinde Eferding — a small Upper Austrian market town on the Danube west of Linz — arranged printing locally through V. Langhammer rather than relying on the Vienna-based printers who handled larger municipalities, which is why the typography has a noticeably provincial character compared to contemporaries from bigger urban centers.
The Langhammer firm was primarily a commercial printer, not a security specialist, and that distinction matters when assessing paper consistency across surviving examples.