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50 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Ulrichsberg (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green letterpress Notgeld printed in a Jugendstil-influenced typeface. The large numeral '50' appears at upper centre, with 'FÜNFZIG HELLER' in bold Gothic lettering filling the middle field. Validity date 'GILT BIS 31.XII.1920' is inscribed at upper left, with anti-counterfeiting warning 'NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT' at upper right, and the issuer inscription 'ULRICHSBERG (O.Ö.) 5.V.20' at foot with Bürgermeister signature. |
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| Reverse description | Bicolour vignette in deep blue and gold printed in a bold woodcut style. A central arch frames a hilltop church silhouetted against a pale sky above a rolling landscape with stylised figures in the foreground. The place-name 'ULRICHSBERG' is overprinted in gold across the centre of the vignette. A border of gold dots frames the entire design, and the denomination '50 HELLER' appears in the lower panel, with the print-run inscription 'Auflage 1000 Stück'. |
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Ulrichsberg is a small market town in the Mühlviertel district of Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the acute shortage of small coins following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These municipal issues filled a genuine gap in everyday commerce at a moment when the new Austrian state had not yet stabilized its coinage supply.
The Jaksc catalogue remains the primary reference for Upper Austrian Notgeld, and this 50 Heller issue is among the more localized and low-circulation examples in that corpus — produced for a community whose permanent population was only a few thousand.