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50 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aflenz (Market Town of Aflenz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0007a-50 |
| Obverse description | Violet letterpress note on plain paper with a light guilloche underprint at centre. Two large numeral '50' medallions in black anchor the left and right, flanking the Gothic-script title 'Gutschein über fünfzig Heller der Marktgemeinde Aflenz.' in the upper portion. The lower half carries a three-line statutory declaration in roman type citing the State Finance Office decree of 18 August 1920, the place and date 'Aflenz, 1. November 1920.', and two manuscript signatures below the printed designations 'Der Finanzreferent:' and 'Der Bürgermeister:'. |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress note with a bold decorative border of repeating spiral and scroll motifs enclosing the full perimeter. A central vignette renders a photographic-style street scene of the Aflenz market square with period commercial buildings. Gothic-script legends read 'Gutschein über 50 Heller der Marktgemeinde Aflenz' across the upper field, while 'Heller 50 Heller' appears in a banner along the lower margin. |
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Aflenz is a small market town in Styria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it resorted to printing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — in the years following the First World War, when small-denomination coins vanished entirely from circulation. The Austro-Hungarian monetary system had collapsed, metal had been consumed by wartime demand, and the new Republic of Austria could not fill the gap fast enough. Local administrations stepped in.
The Marktgemeinde Aflenz series of 1920 is a relatively obscure provincial issue. The "a" suffix on the Jaksch reference suggests at least one variant exists within the 50 Heller denomination — likely a color or printing difference rather than a date change.