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50 Heller Allerheiligen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Allerheiligen (Municipality of Allerheiligen, Bezirk Perg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue ink on cream paper, the note is divided into three vertical panels of equal width. The left and right panels each contain a detailed line-drawn vignette of a rural village church with a tall steeple set among trees and rolling landscape. The central panel bears a decorative cartouche with undulating guilloche lines, within which the denomination "50" appears in large bold numerals above the word "Heller"; the header inscription "Gutschein über" is lettered in Gothic script within a foliate banner suspended from the top. The lower portion of the note carries the place name "Allerheiligen o.ö." in large Gothic blackletter script spanning the full width, interspersed with scrolling foliate ornaments. |
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| Signature(s) | K. Wiesinger |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged from a hard practical problem: the post-WWI collapse left the new republic without sufficient small coinage for everyday transactions. Rather than wait, thousands of municipalities printed their own emergency notes under a loosely supervised arrangement. Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis, a small parish community in the Perg district, issued this 50 Heller piece as part of that wave — one of the more obscure issuers in a series that runs to several thousand distinct types.
K. Wiesinger's signature indicates a local official authorization, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal signatory. These notes were redeemable only within the issuing community, which kept circulation tight and losses on unredeemed notes modest.