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50 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Eben |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the central vignette presents a chubby infant figure seated within a large circular burst of radiating lines, rendered in an expressive Jugendstil idiom. Denomination cartouches reading '50 HELLER' are placed in circular frames at the upper left and right, with vertical ruled panel underprints flanking the central design. The commune name 'EBEN' appears in bold decorative letterpress at the foot of the note, surmounted by the issuer legend 'ORTSGEMEINDE' along the upper margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Schmiedinger |
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Ortsgemeinde Eben was one of hundreds of small Austrian municipalities forced to issue Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. These local emergency notes were a stopgap, redeemable in theory but often worthless once the issuing commune ran out of funds or was absorbed into restructured administrative districts. Eben's 50 Heller, signed by Franz Schmiedinger, almost certainly in his capacity as Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official, belongs to the 1920 wave — late in the Notgeld period, when hyperinflationary pressure was already building.
Many commune-level issues from this period were never formally redeemed.