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50 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Upper Styria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0014g-50 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in reddish-purple and grey tones on a cream ground, with a decorative border of stylised leaf sprays and a geometric guilloche pattern. A central rectangular vignette presents a scenic mountain landscape with a snow-capped Alpine peak and a foreground village, enclosed within a beaded octagonal frame. The denomination numeral '50' appears in red within a circular cartouche at the top centre, flanked by ribbon scrolls bearing 'Heller', while two square corner panels at lower left and right carry the denomination legend '50 fünfzig Heller' in purple. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen Ober-Steiermark Da Hoamat, da liabn, Schlogt mei Herz stets recht woarm, Wer koa Hoamatliab hot, Is sei Leben long oarm. Die Gemeinde Aigen (Ober-Steiermark) haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 17. Juli 1920 dafür, diesen Schein 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Austrian municipal notgeld issued during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With the new Republic struggling to produce sufficient small-denomination coinage, thousands of Austrian communes issued their own emergency paper between roughly 1919 and 1922 — Aigen in Upper Styria among them. The 50 Heller denomination was among the most common targets for local issue, filling the gap left by withdrawn wartime coinage.
The Jaksch reference JPR0014g indicates this belongs to a documented series, suggesting Aigen issued multiple denominations. Upper Styrian notgeld from smaller communes tends to surface less frequently than issues from larger market towns, simply due to smaller original print runs.