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60 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0560b-60 |
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| Obverse lettering | 60 Hl. Hl. Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Lofer, Land Salzburg. Giltig bis 31. März 1921. Der Bürgermeister: Vizebürgerm. Scholz Weißbacher Gem. Rat. Jos. Dankl |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red and pale blue-grey on a cream ground, with a decorative floral and geometric guilloche border enclosing the entire design. A large central oval vignette presents a bearded man in traditional Salzburg costume with a feathered hat, set against an alpine mountain landscape; the inscription 'Landesverteidiger 1809' runs vertically along the right edge of the oval. The denomination numeral '60' appears in large format at upper left and upper right, flanked below by two heraldic shields — the Lofer town arms at lower left and the Salzburg provincial arms at lower right — with the legends 'Markt Lofer' and 'Land Salzburg' at the foot. The notation '2. Auflage' (second printing) appears at lower left. |
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Lofer is a small market town in the Salzburg district of St. Johann im Pongau, and like hundreds of similarly modest Austrian municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the coin shortage that gripped the Austro-Hungarian successor states after 1918. These small-denomination emergency issues were a local administrative response, not a central banking decision — the Marktgemeinde simply printed what it needed to keep daily commerce moving when metal coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely.
The 60 Heller denomination is characteristic of the fractional values that saw the heaviest transactional use and, consequently, the highest attrition rates. Survivors in any condition tend to reflect that.