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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling (Municipality of Maria Laach am Jauerling, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress vignette of an ornate Baroque church altar with statues and radiating sunburst, set within an arched architectural frame. Denomination numeral '50' appears in banners at upper left and right beneath the header 'Gutschein'. Issuer name 'Gemeinde Maria Laach a. Jauerling' and three facsimile signatures with official titles appear in a text panel below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-blue underprint with a central text block in Gothic Fraktur script stating the note's denomination, issuer, and validity period. A four-line verse in script at upper right addresses collectors. Series designation '3. Serie.' appears at left; validity and redemption deadlines are stated in full. |
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Maria Laach am Jauerling is a small wine-growing parish in the Wachau hinterland, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 was entirely practical — small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation in Austria by the early 1920s, hoarded or melted, leaving rural municipalities to paper over the gap themselves. Thousands of Austrian communes did exactly this between 1919 and 1922, producing a sprawl of hyperlocal emergency currency that the central government tolerated rather than sanctioned.
Jaksc 0584 is among the more obscure entries in the Lower Austrian notgeld corpus — the municipality was tiny, print runs were small, and most circulated until they fell apart.