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50 Heller Lochen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lochen (Municipality of Lochen) |
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| Designer(s) | Sepp Auer |
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| Obverse lettering | Lochen 50 50 Sepp Auer |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a large central hexagonal cartouche containing the stylised denomination inscription 'Ge 50 r' (Groschen/Heller 50), surrounded by an ornate Art Nouveau border of scrollwork and foliate motifs. Below the cartouche, a two-column text block states the redemption conditions, with the printer's imprint 'Druck von J. Moser, Braunau am Inn' in italics along the bottom margin. |
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This is a Kriegsnotgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip produced by an Austrian municipality during the acute coin shortage of the First World War. The Gemeinde Lochen, a small parish community in Upper Austria near the Bavarian border, commissioned local printer J. Moser in nearby Braunau am Inn rather than turning to a larger urban press. That geographic proximity matters: Braunau was the administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding rural communes, and Moser handled several such commissions from villages in the district.
Designer credit to Sepp Auer is the one detail that lifts this above routine notgeld — local artistic attribution at this scale is uncommon and suggests the municipality wanted something more considered than a plain typeset slip.