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50 Heller Abtenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Abtenau (Municipality of Abtenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | A central rectangular vignette, framed by a decorative letterpress border, presents a panoramic landscape of Abtenau with the church spire in the foreground and the Alpine peaks of the Tennengebirge massif rising behind, printed in brown. Ribbon scrolls in the upper corners bear 'Gemeinde' at left and 'Abtenau Heller' at right, with the numeral '50' repeated at lower left and lower right outside the frame. A curved text banner below the vignette carries the redemption clause in German Gothic script, affirming that the note is redeemable in lawful currency by the municipality of Abtenau until 31 December 1920. |
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| Signature(s) | Bürgermeister Auer |
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Abtenau's 50 Heller Notgeld of 1920 belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency issued after the collapse of the Habsburg empire left local economies starved of small change. The designer Hutter was almost certainly a local figure — Salzburg-region Notgeld was frequently designed by townspeople, schoolteachers, or minor civic artists rather than professional printers, which accounts for the considerable variation in quality across the series.
Signed by Bürgermeister Auer, the note carries mayoral authority in place of any banking institution — legally ambiguous instruments that nonetheless circulated freely out of sheer necessity.