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50 Heller Aggsbach Dorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aggsbach Dorf (Municipality of Aggsbach Dorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The plain cream reverse is set within a simple dotted rectangular border with nested geometric line frames at each corner. The denomination numeral '50' appears at the upper left and upper right corners in bold type, with the title 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Aggsbach Dorf' centred at the top. Below, a guarantee clause and validity statement are printed in Roman typeface, confirming the municipality's liability for redemption and specifying the expiry date of 31 December 1920. |
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| Signature(s) | A. Paredschneider |
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Austrian municipal notgeld at its most local: Aggsbach Dorf, a village on the south bank of the Danube in Lower Austria, issued its own emergency currency during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg empire. The printer, Franz Wedl of Melk, was a regional press a few kilometres upriver — exactly the kind of small commercial operation that hundreds of Austrian communities turned to when the central monetary system could no longer supply small change.
The signatory A. Paredschneider was almost certainly the municipal mayor or designated official at the time of issue, though the name does not surface in wider administrative records.