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50 Heller
| Issuer | Land Oberösterreich (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Landes Oberösterreich 50 Fünfzig Heller Für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in gef. Bargeld innerhalb der öffentl. verlautb. Frist haftet das Land Oberösterreich. Linz, am 1. Februar 1921. Der Landeshauptmann: Joh. Nep. Hauser Die Landeshauptmann-Stellvertreter: Dr. Schlegel Jos. Gruber F. Langoth (Translation: Voucher of the Federal State of Upper Austria / 50 Fifty Heller / The Land of Upper Austria guarantees the redemption of this voucher in legal tender within the publicly announced period. / Linz, 1st February 1921. / The Governor: Johann Nepomuk Hauser / The Deputy Governors: Dr. Schlegel, Josef Gruber, F. Langoth) |
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| Reverse lettering | No printed (Translation: No printed) |
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Upper Austria's Heller notgeld from this period emerged from a genuine monetary vacuum. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg currency system left municipal and regional authorities across the former empire scrambling to fill denominations that the central government in Vienna could not physically produce fast enough. Oberösterreich printed its own small-denomination emergency scrip under regional authority, with four signatories — an unusually broad administrative sign-off that reflects just how politically contested local financial autonomy had become in the early Austrian Republic.
Franz Langoth, one of the four signatories, later became a prominent figure in Austrian National Socialism. His signature on a 1921 notgeld issue is an early documentary trace of his administrative career in Upper Austria.