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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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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Kassenschein in violet on cream paper with a geometric guilloche underprint border. The denomination '50' is set centrally in large bold numerals flanked by 'Heller' at left and right; the issuer name 'Reichersberg a. J.' appears in Gothic script at top. Two text panels carry the legal authorization clause and validity notice, with the Bürgermeister's printed signature below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reichersberg am Inn, O.-Ö. |
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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.