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50 Heller Alkoven
| Issuer | Gemeinde Alkoven (Municipality of Alkoven) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Alkoven. O.-Ö. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller Zuerst Arbeit und Pflügen, Dann Jagen und Vergnügen. Gutschein welchen die Ortsgemeinde Alkoven in Oberösterreich bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde einlöst. Alkoven, am 10. April 1920. Der Bürgermeister: J. Haselmayr. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz. |
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Alkoven is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres west of Linz, and its decision to issue emergency money in 1920 reflects the prolonged small-change crisis that continued well after the armistice — the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left Austrian municipalities scrambling for years, not just months. Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a regional Linz printer with a solid regional client base among Upper Austrian Notgeld issuers, which makes the production quality competent but unsurprising for the type.
The single signature, J. Haselmayr, likely represents the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal officer — Alkoven was too small to have had a formal treasury apparatus signing these.