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5 Heller Ebensee
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Ebensee (Commune of Ebensee am Traunsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER ORTSGEMEINDE: EBENSEE Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Ebensee für 100.000 K Gutscheine aus. Die Gutscheine sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Ebensee bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzl. Bargelde eingelöst. Die Gemeinde Ebensee haftet für die Verbindlichkeit und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Ebensee, am 17. April 1920. Die Nachahmung der Gutscheine wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: 1920 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same red-brown tone and executed in an elaborate Art Nouveau style. A central octagonal vignette presents a townscape of Ebensee with multi-storey buildings set against a mountainous backdrop. The denomination numeral 5 appears in large Art Nouveau script in the left and right panels, with the word HELLER split across both sides. The entire composition is enclosed within an ornate foliate and floral border of stylized leaves and blossoms, and the word FÜNF is inscribed in decorative lettering along the lower edge. |
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Ebensee's Heller notgeld belongs to the wave of small-denomination emergency coinage substitutes issued by Austrian municipalities following the near-total disappearance of metal coins during and after the First World War. By 1920 the phenomenon had become almost industrialized — local councils across Upper Austria commissioned small print runs, often from regional printers, to fill the gap left by a central government unable to supply adequate fractional currency.
Ebensee itself was a salt-mining town on the Traunsee, not a commercial center, which likely kept circulation of this note tight and geographically contained.