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50 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed in blue and red, divided into three panels by a decorative scalloped border. The left and right panels each contain a blue vignette of a putto holding a tray of food items, set within a shield-shaped frame. The central panel carries the denomination '50 HELLER 50' in bold red letterpress numerals and text. The header inscription 'EINST UND JETZT' runs across the top in blue, and the issuer inscription in Gothic script appears along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Lebensmittelausgabestelle der Stadtgemeinde Eferding. Die Stadtgemeinde Eferding haftet für die Einlösung dieses Notgeldes in gesetzlichem Bargelde bis zum öffentlich verlautbarten Endtermin. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Eferding am 1. Juni 1920 Bürgermeister: |
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Eferding is one of the oldest market towns in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of small Austrian municipalities, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left the country chronically short of small-denomination coinage. The Stadtgemeinde authorized this 50 Heller note in 1920, relatively late in the Austrian Notgeld wave, when most larger cities had already begun winding down their local issues.
The printer, Reklame "Puka" of Linz, was a commercial advertising firm that took on municipal Notgeld commissions as a sideline — not a specialist security printer. The designer credit to L. Haase Jun. suggests a locally sourced commission rather than a stock design.