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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Göstling (Municipality of Göstling) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in muted grey-green on plain paper, the reverse carries a dense symmetrical guilloche underprint of floral and foliate arabesques centred on a small boxed numeral "50". Superimposed across the full field in bold Fraktur blackletter script is a four-line patriotic verse in German. The composition is enclosed within a plain ruled rectangular border. |
| Reverse lettering | Mit Hacke und Pflug, Mit Schlegel und Hammer, Bekämpfen wir rastlos Kriegsnot und Jammer. (Translation: With hoe and plough, with flail and hammer, we tirelessly fight the hardships and misery of war.) |
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A product of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave, when thousands of municipalities printed their own small-denomination emergency money to address the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The national government had essentially stopped supplying fractional currency, leaving towns to fend for themselves. Göstling, a small market commune in Lower Austria's Ybbs valley, was one of hundreds that took up the option.
Many Lower Austrian Gemeinde issues from 1920 were printed in very small runs and redeemed quickly once coin supplies normalized, making local survival rates unpredictable.