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50 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Reichersberg (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Reichersberg a. J. Heller 50 Heller Kassen-Schein. Die Gem. Reichersberg gibt l. Beschl. vom 24. Mai 1920 Kassenscheine aus, haftet für die Verpflichtung zur Einlösung mit ihrem gesamt. Vermögen. Giltig bis einschl. 31. Dezember 1920. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines ist gesetzlich verboten. Der Bürgermeister :: Karl Oekl. :: |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Oekl. |
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Reichersberg is a small market town on the Inn River, hard against the German border — an unlikely issuer of emergency currency, but entirely typical of the chaotic post-WWI period in the former Austrian crownlands. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the severe coin shortage of 1918–1921 prompted thousands of Austrian municipalities to print their own Notgeld, authorized under emergency provisions and valid only within issuing communities. Reichersberg's 50 Heller falls squarely into that wave.
Karl Oekl's signature as signatory presumably reflects a local municipal official rather than a banking authority — these notes carried the weight of civic trust, not institutional backing.