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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grossgstötten (Ortsgemeinde Grossgstötten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and black Notgeld voucher with a tripartite layout: flanking panels carry bold numeral '50' denominators set within ornate scrollwork guilloche underprints, while the central vignette presents a letterpress view of a narrow village lane with a church tower visible at the end of the passage. The upper register bears the issuing legend in bold block lettering within a framed cartouche, and 'HELLER' appears in the lower corners of each side panel. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned reverse enclosed by a fine dotted outer border and an inner ornamental frame with Art Nouveau corner flourishes, containing a light watermark-style tonal underprint of repeated text. The central text block sets out the redemption terms and anti-counterfeiting warning in roman typeface, followed by the title 'Der Ortsvorsteher:' and the signatory name in bold capitals. Edition notations '2. Auflage' and '1. Ausgabe' appear at the lower left and lower right respectively. |
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Grossgstötten is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the old Habsburg currency system in collapse and small change effectively vanishing from daily commerce, even tiny villages were authorized to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Gemeinde handled issuance locally, with Johann Bauer's signature providing the administrative sanction required under Austrian notgeld regulations.
The Jaksc/Pick reference 0292ll places this within the documented Upper Austrian series, but surviving examples from minor communes like Grossgstötten are disproportionately scarce — local print runs were small, redemption was actively encouraged once federal currency stabilized, and few saw any reason to save them.