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10 Heller Lofer
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lofer (Market Town of Lofer) |
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| Obverse description | Tan and dark red Notgeld note with a vignette at left centre portraying the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon and holding the Christ Child, set within an oval cartouche framed by decorative foliage. The large denomination numeral '10 H.' appears at upper right in bold dark red letterpress, followed by the issuing text in Gothic script. Below the vignette, facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat are printed. Edition designation '1. AUFLAGE' appears at lower left, with the printer's imprint 'WAGNER, INNSBRUCK' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 10 Hl. Hl. Markt Lofer, Ld. Salzburg |
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Lofer is a small market town in Salzburg province, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during World War I, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coins from circulation. The imperial government had suspended convertibility and the public was hoarding anything metallic. Local authorities were essentially left to solve the problem themselves.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a significant volume of Tyrolean and Salzburg municipal Notgeld during this period, which lends these issues a degree of printing consistency unusual for emergency currency of this kind.