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50 Heller Lorch
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lorch (Municipality of Lorch, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller ST. LAURENTIVSKIRCHE ZV LORCH |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in violet on cream paper, is laid out as an unfurled scroll vignette with rolled ends at the top and bottom corners. Within the scroll, a block of Gothic blackletter text sets out the municipal guarantee declaration, dated Lorch, am 15. Mai 1920, followed by the title 'Der Bürgermeister' and a manuscript facsimile signature. The imprint 'Buchdruckerei Enns' appears in small roman type at the foot of the scroll. |
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Lorch — known in Roman times as Lauriacum — was a significant legionary fortress and later an early episcopal seat, though by 1920 it was a small Upper Austrian municipality with no bank and a severe shortage of small change. The Heller coins needed for everyday transactions had essentially vanished from circulation across Austria by the early postwar years, hoarded or melted, and hundreds of municipalities were forced to print their own emergency fractional notes. This is one of them.
Buchdruckerei Enns was a local commercial printer, not a security press. These Notgeld issues were typically produced with whatever typographic stock was on hand.