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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altenberg (Municipality of Altenberg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue-violet ink on cream paper. A central panoramic vignette presents a townscape of Altenberg with a prominent church steeple and village rooftops set against a clouded sky, flanked on each side by a decorative putto: the left figure carries a floral garland, the right bears a sheaf of grain. The denomination numeral "50" appears in all four corners, with the legends "Gutschein der Gemeinde Altenberg" arched across the top and "Fünfzig Heller" in a framed panel at the base; the printer's imprint "L. Haase, Linz" appears in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 — HELLER — 50 Die Gemeinde Altenberg gibt laut Sitzungsbeichluß vom 15. Mai 1920 Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 30.000 Kronen aus. Die Scheine werden nach erfolgter Kundmachung in gesetzlichem Bargelde bei der Gemeindekasse eingelöst. Altenberg, am 15. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Altenberg an der Donau is a small Danubian village in Upper Austria, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the enormous wave of Notgeld that Austrian municipalities were forced to produce when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local economies starved of small change. L. Haase in Linz handled a considerable volume of this regional emergency printing work, supplying dozens of Upper Austrian parishes and small towns with notes they never expected to be issuing.
The 50 Heller denomination was among the most commonly needed for daily transactions — bread, ferry fares, market goods — which means circulated survivors typically show real wear.