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50 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Grieskirchen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtgemeinde Grieskirchen löst diesen Gutschein über Fünfzig Heller vom 1. bis 15. Oktober 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld ein. Der Bürgermeister: Joh. Straßer. |
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| Reverse lettering | Josef Radlegger Maurer- und Zimmermeister Sägewerksbesitzer in Grieskirchen. Fernruf Nr. 16. |
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Grieskirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system after 1918 left municipal authorities scrambling to fill a gap in small-denomination coinage — hoarding and metal shortages had made coins effectively vanish from daily commerce. Towns issued their own emergency paper, often in very small print runs, redeemable locally and theoretically backed by municipal funds.
The single signature — Joh. Straßer — almost certainly belongs to the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal financial officer of the period, though Grieskirchen's wartime administrative records are not widely documented. Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type was rarely redeemed in full; many issues were quietly demonetized, making surviving circulated examples genuinely representative of everyday transactional use rather than deliberate preservation.