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60 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 60 hl. Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Lofer, Land Salzburg Giltig bis 31. Jänner 1921 Der Bürgermeister: Vizebürgerm. Gem. Rat. 1. AUFLAGE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown and tan on a buff ground, with the large denomination numerals '60' set in the upper left and upper right corners against a stippled floral underprint. The central design is an oval vignette of a Tyrolean Landesverteidiger (home defender) of 1809 in period costume, armed with a sword and drum, set before a panoramic Alpine mountain landscape; the inscription 'LANDESVERTEIDIGER 1809' curves along the lower edge of the oval. To the lower left appears a small shield cartouche with a religious figure, and to the lower right the heraldic lion of Salzburg, with the legends 'Markt Lofer' and 'Land Salzburg' in Gothic script along the bottom margin. |
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Lofer is a small market town in the Salzburg district of St. Johann, and this 60 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of the severe coin shortage following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal authorities at every level, from large cities down to villages barely large enough to appear on regional maps, were authorized to issue their own emergency fractional currency. Lofer qualified only just.
Wagner of Innsbruck was a prolific printer of Tyrolean and Salzburg regional Notgeld during this period, handling dozens of small-municipality commissions simultaneously.