50 Heller Lorch

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.