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50 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Tumeltsham (Upper Austria) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Austere typographic emergency currency note issued by the Municipality of Tumeltsham, Upper Austria, with the denomination 50 Heller set in bold letterpress type within a simple printed border. Municipal authority text and denomination inscription are arranged in a structured, text-dominant layout characteristic of Austrian local Notgeld of the 1918–1921 Krone period, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain typographic reverse bearing printed text affirming the validity and issuing authority of the note, consistent with standard Austrian municipal Notgeld practice of the Krone era. The composition is entirely textual with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint, relying on formal declarations of acceptance within the issuing municipality. |
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Tumeltsham is a village of a few hundred inhabitants in the Innviertel district of Upper Austria, which makes this 50 Heller note one of the more extreme examples of wartime Notgeld fragmentation. During 1920–1921, when the Austrian central monetary system was still in post-imperial disarray, even municipalities of this size were authorized — in practice, compelled — to print their own emergency small-change notes to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation.
The JPR catalogue prefix signals Jaksch's regional Austrian Notgeld listings, a classification system that runs into the tens of thousands of entries once you account for every parish and market town that issued independently.