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50 Heller Alkoven
| Issuer | Gemeinde Alkoven (Municipality of Alkoven) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a large central vignette rendered in fine letterpress, illustrating a dramatic woodland battle scene with armoured soldiers and infantry engaged in close combat among birch trees — a depiction of the historical engagement known as the Battle of Ebelsberg or a local Peasants' War skirmish. The scene is set within an arched frame of diagonal hatching and a beaded border, itself surrounded by a foliate outer border with corner squares. A caption in Gothic script below the vignette identifies the scene. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Haselmayr |
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Alkoven is a small market community in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own Notgeld during the postwar economic chaos when small change effectively vanished from circulation. The 50 Heller denomination places this squarely in the practical tier of emergency coinage substitutes — not a prestige collector piece but a working community scrip, signed by J. Haselmayr in an administrative rather than banking capacity.
The Jaksc/Pick reference suffix "IIb" indicates a recognized variety within the series, likely a paper stock or print color distinction cataloged after enough examples surfaced to differentiate them.