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50 Heller
| Issuer | Land Steiermark (Federal State of Styria) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Red on cream unface notgeld printed in a Gothic blackletter and italic script throughout. The denomination numeral '50' is set at center within a fine guilloche oval underprint, flanked by the cursive legends 'über fünfzig' and 'über Heller' and the issuer text 'des Landes Steiermark'. The Styrian coat of arms — a white panther on a green field, rendered here in red intaglio — occupies the lower center. Validity and anti-counterfeiting notices appear at upper left and right respectively, with four manuscript facsimile signatures of issuing officials at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein des Landes Steiermark über fünfzig 50 Heller Zur Behebung der herrschenden Hartgeldnot gibt das Land Steiermark auf Grund des Landtagsbeschlusses vom 17. Okt. 1919 Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von drei Millionen Kronen aus. Diese Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 16. Febr. 1920 bis einschließlich 29. Febr. 1920 beim Landesobereinnahmen-Amt in Graz in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Styria's 1919 emergency issues were a direct consequence of the postwar coin famine that swept across the rump Austrian state following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. With small-denomination metal coinage effectively gone from circulation, individual provinces, towns, and even private businesses were legally authorized to produce their own Notgeld — and Steiermark was among the more prolific regional issuers.
The series to which this 50 Heller belongs circulated locally at a moment when the new Republic of German-Austria had not yet stabilized its currency arrangements, the Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank still technically operational but trusted by almost no one.