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50 Heller Allentsteig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Allentsteig |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Allentsteig 50 Heller Die Giltigkeit dieses Gutscheines erlöscht am 31. Jänner 1921. Rückzahlbar in der Zeit vom 1. Feber – 15. Feber 1921 DFR VIZE-BGMT.: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER KÄMMERER: Allentsteig am 1/5. 1920. Stadtgemeinde Allentsteig Waldviertel N.Ö. |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on buff paper within a double ornamental border, denomination '50' in circled cartouches at all four corners. A decorative scroll banner arching across the upper half carries the motto text in Gothic script. At centre, a large circular municipal seal of Allentsteig shows the town's tower and gate flanked by laurel branches, with the Latin legend around the circumference. Below the seal, two blocks of Gothic-script legal text affirm the municipality's liability and warn against counterfeiting. |
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Allentsteig is a small market town in Lower Austria's Waldviertel region, and its municipal government issued these Heller notgeld notes in 1920 as part of the broader Austrian emergency money wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities did the same — Gerin in Vienna printed for dozens of them, which is why the production quality is competent but never distinctive.
Paul Gerin's workshop was one of the busiest notgeld printers in postwar Austria, handling municipal contracts from across the country simultaneously.