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50 Heller Klaffer, Blue issue
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klaffer (Municipality of Klaffer) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress vignette set within a rounded rectangular frame, centred on a panoramic view of the Klaffer village with a farmhouse, church steeple, and wooded landscape. At upper centre, a stag's head with antlers and a cross-shaped halo is flanked by two capercaillie perched on crossed rifles, all surmounting twin scroll banners bearing the denomination inscription. At lower left, a standing hunter in traditional Tyrolean dress rests on a rifle, while a deer grazes at lower right; the issuer name 'Gemeinde Klaffer' appears along the bottom margin in bold Gothic lettering. The denomination '50' is repeated in large numerals at upper left and upper right within the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller 50 Gemeinde Klaffer. |
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Klaffer is a small market town on the Böhmerwald — the Upper Austrian side of the Bohemian Forest — and this note is a product of the catastrophic cash shortage that followed Austria-Hungary's dissolution. Municipal governments across German-Austria were forced to print their own fractional emergency money, Notgeld, because the new state simply could not supply enough low-denomination coinage. The Heller had effectively ceased to function as a circulating coin.
The blue color variant (JPR0450b) distinguishes this from the earlier red issue of the same denomination and municipality. Two signatures appear: the Bürgermeister Friedrich Löffler alongside his deputy Friedrich Groisz — an unusually complete attestation for a piece of hyperlocal emergency scrip from a town this size.