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75 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Value | 75 Hellers (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Lofer, Land Salzburg, haftet für die Einlösung dieses Scheines über Fünfundsiebzig Heller bis 31. März 1921. Nachdruck verboten. Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgerm. Der Gemd. Rat: 75 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in deep red on a buff ground and occupied almost entirely by a panoramic landscape vignette of the Loferer Steinberge mountain range, with a wooden footbridge over a stream, conifers, and an alpine farmhouse in the middle distance. At the lower portion, two large circular denomination cartouches bearing '75' flank a central banner with the issuer's name in Gothic lettering. The notation '2. AUFLAGE' (second edition) appears at the lower left margin. |
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Lofer is a small market town in the Salzburg district of St. Johann, and like hundreds of similar Austrian municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the closing years of the First World War and its immediate aftermath. The 75 Heller denomination is characteristic of this period's fractional issues, designed to replace small coins that had been hoarded or melted.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of Tyrolean and Salzburg regional Notgeld, making their output identifiable by consistent typographic conventions across many small issuers. Attribution to a specific print run within the JPR0560b series requires close attention to paper stock and ink color, as variant classifications for Lofer issues rest on minor production differences.