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75 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark red on buff paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of the Lofer parish church with its characteristic onion-domed tower, rendered in a detailed woodcut-style illustration. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large type in the upper left and upper right corners, flanking the church vignette. Text in Gothic Kurrent script at left gives the issuing authority's guarantee of redemption, while the right panel bears the redemption deadline, a reproduction-prohibition notice, and three facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat; the imprint '1. AUFLAGE' and 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' appear in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark red on buff paper and dominated by a large landscape vignette of Schloss Grubhof set against an alpine mountain backdrop, rendered in a detailed woodcut style with surrounding trees. The caption 'SCHLOSS GRUBHOF' appears in small capitals beneath the vignette. At the lower centre, a horizontal inscription band in Gothic script reads 'Marktgemeinde Lofer, Land Salzburg, Republik Deutschösterreich', flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '75' in bold circular cartouches. |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced during the severe coin shortage of the First World War and its immediate aftermath, this 75 Heller note from Lofer — a small market town in the Salzburg district of St. Johann — was printed by Wagner in Innsbruck, a firm that handled numerous Tyrolean and Salzburg municipal emergency issues during this period. Local authorities were authorized to issue small-denomination paper to replace hoarded or melted coinage, and towns as minor as Lofer found themselves acting as de facto currency issuers.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0560a indicates this is the first catalogued variety for the Lofer 75 Heller type, suggesting at least one additional variant exists.