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50 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Tafelberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark ink on a violet guilloche underprint, the obverse presents a central vignette of a putto standing atop a pedestal, holding crossed wheat sheaves with birds in flight to either side and a bunch of grapes at the base. Ornamental floral cartouches flank the vignette at left and right, each containing the denomination numeral '30' alongside the legend 'Heller'. The issuer name 'ORTSGEMEINDE TAFELBERG' is set in capital letters at the lower margin, with 'GUTSCHEIN' inscribed in bold across the upper border. |
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| Signature(s) | Johann Morawetz |
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Tafelberg — a small municipality in Lower Austria — issued this 50 Heller Notgeld note during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. Municipal and parish authorities across German-speaking Austria scrambled to print emergency small-denomination scrip in 1919–1920, filling a gap the central government was too destabilized to address. The Ortsgemeinde series from this region were typically authorized locally and signed by a responsible official; here that falls to Johann Morawetz, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a designated community treasurer.
Redemption of these Notgeld issues was theoretically guaranteed but often practically difficult, and many circulated well beyond their intended withdrawal dates.