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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Baumgarten bei Perg (Municipality of Baumgarten near Perg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress notgeld vignette on cream paper, centred on a rural scene of a large farmhouse or manor building with a celebrated 1000-year-old linden tree ("1000 jährige Linde") to its left, set beneath a sky with billowing clouds. The upper border carries the legend "Gutschein der Gemeinde" in Gothic script, while the denomination numeral "50" appears in bold at lower left and right, flanking the issuer name "Baumgarten" in a decorative cartouche. Oak-leaf and floral ornamental borders frame the entire composition, with printer credits visible in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper printed in green letterpress throughout, with a simple ruled rectangular frame and Art Nouveau corner flourishes. The upper portion carries the issuer heading "Gemeinde Baumgarten bei Perg" with denomination numerals "50" in the top corners, followed by the full legal text of issue in Gothic script. Below the text block appear the facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and two councillors, with a final anti-counterfeiting warning in the lowest line. |
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Baumgarten bei Perg is a small agricultural commune in Upper Austria with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred in 1920. The note exists because the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural communities without enough small-denomination coinage to conduct daily trade — the Austrian state simply could not mint fast enough to fill the gap. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own Notgeld during this window, and Linz-area printers were kept busy supplying them.
Three signatories — the Bürgermeister plus two local officials — were required to validate each note, a procedural formality that did little to inspire confidence but satisfied the legal requirements for municipal scrip.