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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Texing (Municipality of Texing) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Gut-Schein der Gemeinde Texing DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER GEMEINDERAT: DIESE SCHEINE WERDEN VOM 1. BIS 15. OKTOBER 1920 IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINGELÖST NACHAHMUNG WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT DRUCK v. RUDOLF u. FRITZ RADINGER in SCHEIBBS |
| Reverse description | The reverse is an unprinted show-through of the obverse in pale blue-grey, produced by the ink bleeding through the thin paper stock, rendering the entire obverse design in mirror image. No independent design elements are present on this side. |
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Texing is a village in Lower Austria with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred — one of the smallest communities to have issued its own Notgeld during the hyperinflationary emergency of the early 1920s. These hyper-local municipal notes were a direct response to the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Austria after the First World War, when hoarding and metal scarcity made coins effectively disappear from everyday commerce.
Rudolf & Fritz Radinger in Scheibbs were a regional print house serving the Mostviertel district, producing Notgeld for several surrounding communes. Their output was functional rather than artistic — none of the elaborate collector-oriented series that larger Austrian towns were printing for philatelic profit by this point.