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50 Heller
| Issuer | Land Steiermark (Federal State of Styria) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 68 × 45 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same dark red on a pale guilloche ground, with no pictorial vignette. The heading "Gutschein des Landes Steiermark über fünfzig 50 Heller" is rendered in large ornate cursive script occupying the upper half of the note. Below, a continuous italic text block explains the legal basis for the issue — citing the Landtag resolution of 17 October 1919, the total authorized amount of three million Kronen, and the redemption period from 16 February 1920 to 29 February 1920 at the Landesobereinnehmers-Amt in Graz. |
| 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 Landesobereinnehmers-Amt in Graz in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Austria's post-WWI collapse of central monetary authority left individual provinces and municipalities scrambling to issue their own emergency money — Notgeld — to cover a chronic shortage of small change. Styria's 50 Heller note from 1919 is part of that wave, authorized at the federal state level rather than by a municipality, which places it a step above the thousands of town-issued pieces flooding the same period.
The Austro-Hungarian krone was still nominally in circulation, but coins had effectively vanished. Paper filled the gap until the Austrian krone was formally separated from the Hungarian currency in 1920.