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50 heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aistersheim (Municipality of Aistersheim, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 96 x 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of Schloss Aistersheim flanked by angels and coat of arms, with blue underprint showing a farmer plowing with two horses. Denomination 50 within ornate guilloche frame at corners. |
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| Reverse description | Light blue guilloche underprint with ornate scrollwork border; central text block states issuance authority and redemption period, with two facsimile signatures below dated Aistersheim, 15 Juni 1920. |
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Aistersheim is a small market commune in the Grieskirchen district, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across Austria, it resorted to printing its own Notgeld when the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The 50 Heller denomination was among the most common for this purpose — coins of that value had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919–1920, hoarded or melted down amid rampant inflation.
Two signatures appear: Bürgermeister Alois Enser and his deputy Karl Bointner. The deputy signing alongside the mayor was a standard authentication requirement, not a sign of anything irregular.