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50 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and grey-blue on cream paper, dominated by a panoramic landscape vignette of Lofer with the Steinberge mountains in the background and the town with its church tower in the foreground, captioned 'LOFER mit Steinberge'. Heraldic shields — one bearing a standing figure and one bearing a lion rampant with the Salzburg arms — flank the upper corners within ornamental surrounds. A lower panel in a contrasting ground displays the denomination '50' at each side flanking the two-line issuing authority inscription. |
| Reverse lettering | LOFER mit Steinberge Marktgemeinde Lofer, Ld. Salzburg Republik Deutschösterreich. 50 50 |
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Lofer is a small market town in the Salzburg Saalachtal, and this 50 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Kleingeldscheine — local emergency small-change notes — issued by municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives during and after the First World War when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Austro-Hungarian state simply could not keep pace with wartime metal demand, and communities were left to solve the problem themselves.
Wagner of Innsbruck was a regional commercial printer, not a security press, which is exactly the point — these notes were never intended as high-security instruments, only as functional substitutes for the 50 Heller coin.