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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traisen (Municipality of Traisen, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | K. Böhm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gemeinde Traisen DURCH ARBEIT ZUR WOHLFAHRT! Wird innerhalb 14 Tagen nach erfolgter Kundmachung eingelöst 50 HELLER |
| Reverse description | Bright yellow-green underprint with a central architectural vignette of two classical fluted columns supporting a decorative entablature, within which a circular medallion encloses a finely detailed engraving of a winged dragon (wyvern) in a heraldic posture. The denomination '50' and the word 'NOTGELD' are set in bold decorative lettering across the upper frieze, flanked by the numeral on each side. A lower cartouche-style banner carries the municipality name and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature, with the designer's mark 'K. BÖHM 1920' inscribed at lower right. |
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Traisen is a small industrial town on the Traisen river in Lower Austria, best known for its paper mill. This 50 Heller note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip produced by Austrian municipalities during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. By 1920, the Austrian crown was in freefall, hoarding of metal coinage was endemic, and hundreds of municipalities printed their own denominations to keep local commerce moving.
K. Böhm's design credit is uncommon for a town this size — most municipal Notgeld was produced from generic templates.