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50 Heller Lochen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lochen (Municipality of Lochen) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the obverse centres on a landscape vignette of the town of Lochen — a rural panorama with a church steeple, village rooftops, rolling hills and billowing clouds rendered in fine letterpress line work. The place name 'Lochen' appears in large Gothic script above the vignette, flanked on either side by decorative scroll ornaments. The denomination numeral '50' is repeated in bold type at the lower left and lower right, and the designer's name 'Sepp Auer' is printed in small text at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ge 50 r DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 IN GESETZ UCH. BARGE LD EINGELÖST. GEMDR. ANGLBERGER Druck von J. Moser, Braunau am Inn |
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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.