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50 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Printer | Wagner, Innsbruck |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark red on cream paper, the note is arranged in three vertical panels: the central panel bears the denomination '50 H' in large Gothic numerals above six lines of blackletter text recording the issuing authority (Marktgemeinde Lofer, Ld. Salzburg), validity date, and three signatories. The left lateral vignette presents a narrow gorge with a wooden walkway, captioned 'VORDERKASERLAMM', while the right vignette shows a rocky ravine scene captioned 'WEISSENBERGKLAMM'. The printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK.' is placed at the lower right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 H Fünfzig Heller Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Lofer, Ld. Salzburg. Giltig bis 31. März 1921. Der Bürgermeister: Vizebürgerm. Scholz. Weißbacher Gem. Rat Schmiderer VORDERKASERKLAMM WEISSENBERGKLAMM WAGNER, INNSBRUCK. |
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Lofer is a small market town in the Salzburg Alps, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1916 onward. These hyperlocal issues were a practical stopgap, authorized at the municipal level precisely because the central authorities could not supply enough small coinage to keep daily commerce moving.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of Tyrolean and Salzburg regional Notgeld, which makes their output identifiable by certain consistent typographic conventions even across different issuing municipalities. The JPR0560b suffix indicates a variant within the Lofer series — likely a color or text difference from the base type.