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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Freinberg (Municipality of Freinberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde FREINBERG OBERÖSTERREICH Der Bürgermeister: J. Neulinger gültig bis 31. XII. 1921 50 HELLER |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 50 GRENZKONTROLLE SAMING |
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Freinberg is a small Upper Austrian municipality on the German border, and like hundreds of comparable parishes, it issued Notgeld during the postwar currency chaos when small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation. The 50 Heller denomination sits squarely in the range most heavily used for day-to-day transactions — bread, beer, tram fare — which means genuinely uncirculated examples from these village issues are harder to find than their apparent abundance suggests.
The designer credit "Albrecht" likely refers to a local or regional commercial artist rather than a print-house staff engraver, a common arrangement for Gemeinde-level Notgeld in 1920–21. J. Neulinger's signature as issuing authority represents the municipal government's direct accountability for redemption — a promise most of these notes ultimately honored before the Austrian crown collapsed entirely in 1922.