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50 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note with a dot-and-wave border frame. The central panel carries the denomination '50 HELLER 50' in large red numerals and text. To the left and right, two square vignettes within decorative shields depict a child figure holding a tray of food, contrasting past and present scarcity. The header inscription 'EINST UND JETZT' (Once and Now) spans the full width, with the issuing authority legend in Gothic script along the lower panel. Printer credits 'REKLAME PUKA LNZ' and designer 'L. HAASE JUN.' appear at the bottom corners. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in black on cream paper with a decorative foliate border of stylized leaves and flowers. The text, set in Gothic blackletter script, states the redemption guarantee of the Stadtgemeinde Eferding and warns against counterfeiting ('Nachahmung wird bestraft'). A central circular vignette contains a pair of scales (balance), symbolizing fair distribution. The date of issue, 1. Juni 1920, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor) appear in the lower right section. |
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Eferding's 50 Heller notgeld was produced by "Puka," an advertising firm in Linz — a reminder that much of the Austrian municipal emergency currency of this period was farmed out to commercial printers with no specialized banknote experience, simply because demand was overwhelming and the postal infrastructure for coin distribution had collapsed. The result was wildly uneven print quality across the notgeld series, and Puka's output is no exception to that pattern.
Designer L. Haase is otherwise obscure within the notgeld literature.