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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Amt Fraham (Municipality of Fraham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | es muefs seyn Stefan Fadinger Emlinger Holz. Notgeld für Fraham 2. Aufl. Druck: Huber, Urfahr. 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Fraham Gemeinde-Amt Fraham Pol. Bezirk Eferding Ob. Öst. Mir Frahamer san gar gmüatliche Leut Dös muas wol a jöda sagn. Es hat amal s'Herfahrn kan nöt greut Dö paar Kreuzer hats an jödn tragn. So wars in all die Jahr'n Bevor der Krieg is kemma, Willst aber heut her zu uns fahrn Muasst viel so Fufzgerln nehma. Die Gemeinde Fraham haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe im Gemeindeamte Fraham in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Fraham 15. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: 50 Heller |
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Fraham is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller notgeld is exactly the kind of note that proliferated across Austria in the early 1920s when coin shortages made small-denomination exchange nearly impossible. The issuing authority here is the municipal office itself — the Gemeinde-Amt — rather than a savings bank or merchant association, which was common enough in village-scale communities that lacked a local financial institution willing to take on the paperwork.
Printed by Huber in nearby Urfahr — the town directly across the Danube from Linz, since absorbed into the city — the signature of Karl Huber as Bürgermeister raises the obvious question of whether printer and mayor were the same family. No definitive answer is on record, but the coincidence is noted in regional notgeld literature.