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50 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Nikola an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Carl Quelser, Amstetten |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-green on plain paper and carries an oval central vignette of a crowned religious figure set within an ornate cartouche, flanked on both sides by the denomination numeral '50' repeated four times at the corners. The left column bears the text of the obligation in German Kurrent script, including the issuer guarantee clause, while the right column identifies the Marktgemeinde St. Nikola a/d Donau and the Strudengau district. Two signature lines appear at the foot, identified as 'Der Vize-Bürgermeister' and 'Der Bürgermeister', with manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | St. Nikola a/d Donau im Strudengau 50 50 |
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Sankt Nikola an der Donau is a small market town on the Danube in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the Notgeld period, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the postwar monetary collapse made small change effectively unavailable. The 50 Heller was among the most common denominations produced in this wave — practical rather than ambitious.
Carl Quelser operated a printing house in Amstetten that handled numerous local Notgeld commissions across Lower and Upper Austria in 1919–1920. Designer credit to H. Kugler is recorded but little else about him survives in the literature.