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50 Heller Eferding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eferding (City of Eferding) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Eferding with a church steeple rising above low rooftops, dated 1920 at lower left within the vignette border. A uniformed soldier or guardsman figure stands to the left of the central panel, while an elderly bearded figure is positioned to the right, both rendered in a decorative letterpress style. The denomination "Fünfzig 50 Heller" is inscribed across the top in bold blackletter script, with the issuing authority legend along the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | 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. Druck V. Langhammer, Linz. Eferding zur Zeit des Bauernkrieges |
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Eferding's 50 Heller Notgeld is one of hundreds of Austrian municipal emergency issues that flooded circulation during 1919–1921, when coin shortages — accelerated by wartime hoarding and post-Habsburg monetary chaos — forced towns of every size to print their own fractional substitutes. What distinguishes the Eferding series from purely functional stopgaps is the involvement of V. Langhammer in Linz, a regional printer whose output for Upper Austrian municipalities shows noticeably more care in typographic composition than the rushed jobbing-house work seen in many comparable notes.
Eferding, the smallest statutory city in Austria by population, had limited fiscal infrastructure — which makes the orderly municipal authorization behind this issue more interesting than the note's face value suggests.