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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ockert (Municipality of Ockert) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Ockert Gutschein auf 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Ockert haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen mit ihrem gesamten Aktivvermögen. Karl Schober GESCH. GEMEINDERAT Franz Baier BÜRGERMEISTER Franz Buchegger VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER Gittig bis 31 Dezember 1920 Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft! |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Schober (Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat), Franz Baier (Bürgermeister) and Franz Buchegger (Vizebürgermeister) |
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Ockert is a small locality in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg economy in 1918–19. The central government's inability to supply adequate small change forced thousands of communes — including obscure rural ones like Ockert — to issue their own emergency currency under a framework that was tolerated rather than formally sanctioned by Vienna.
Three signatories were required: the mayor, the vice-mayor, and the executive councillor. That Franz Baier and Karl Schober both signed suggests the full municipal apparatus was engaged, however modest the operation.