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50 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Pale green and cream reverse with a large diamond-shaped central panel enclosed by an Art Nouveau-style foliate border printed in sage green. The panel carries the redemption notice and counterfeiting warning in brown letterpress, with the Ortsvorsteher's name printed below in a formal typeface. |
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| Signature(s) | Breitschopf Adolf |
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Hundsberg is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities effectively without usable small change — banks couldn't supply it, so villages printed their own. Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg was one of hundreds to do exactly that, issuing locally authorized scrip under the signature of a municipal official, here recorded as Breitschopf Adolf.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the documented series, but survival rates for rural Austrian Notgeld vary considerably — collector demand drove secondary print runs in some cases, muddying the line between genuine circulation issues and philatelic production.