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50 Heller
| Issuer | Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau gibt laut Beschluss vom 6. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 25000 Kr. aus, und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein bis 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe bei der Marktcommune Kasse in gesetzl. Bargeld einzulösen. Der Vorstand. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also in reddish-brown on cream paper, presents an oval vignette at left with a finely engraved landscape view of the celebrated St. Georgener Linde, a large linden tree set against a pastoral background, labelled 'St. Georgener Linde' along the oval border. To the right, a four-line verse in Gothic script reads 'Stumm bin ich Zeuge 1200 Jahr…', beneath which the denomination inscription 'Gutschein der Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau' appears in bold Fraktur lettering, flanked at lower left and right by two oval cartouches each bearing '50 Heller'. The printer's imprint 'Salzkammergut-Druckerei Gmunden' is set in small type along the bottom margin. |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market commune on the southwestern edge of the Attersee in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the postwar Austrian economy in freefall and coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient quantities — even minor market towns were compelled to print their own emergency small change. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in nearby Gmunden handled a considerable volume of this local issue work across the lake district communes.