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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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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain cream paper within a simple dotted rectangular border. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen / Ober-Steiermark' appears at the top in bold Fraktur, flanked by denomination numerals '50 Heller' at left and right. A four-line Styrian dialect verse occupies the centre field, followed by the formal redemption guarantee text citing the municipal council resolution of 17 July 1920, pledging exchange into legal tender within four weeks of notice. The facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears at the lower right above the title 'Der Bürgermeister:'. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen Ober-Steiermark 50 Heller 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 from the early 1920s is often dismissed as a collector's curiosity, but these emergency issues had genuine economic function. The post-WWI collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone left small communities across Styria without adequate coin in circulation — national minting simply could not keep pace with demand, and municipalities like Aigen stepped in to fill the gap with locally authorized paper fractions.
Aigen in Upper Styria is a small alpine commune; its notgeld series was neither widely distributed nor extensively printed. The Jaksch reference catalog remains the primary tool for identifying Styrian municipal issues, many of which survive in quantities too small to establish reliable rarity rankings.