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50 Heller Altaist
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0023a-50 |
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| Reverse description | Green on cream paper within a repetitive geometric border. 'Gemeinde Altaist' is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the upper portion, followed by a text block in Gothic script stating the Notgeld's purpose and redemption terms; a central oval official dry stamp reads 'GEMEINDEAMT ALTAIST / polit. Bezirk Perg / OB.-ÖST.'. Three handwritten signatures with printed titles appear below the stamp, while the lower margin carries the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft' and the edition note '1. Auflage'. |
| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Altaist gemeinde gibt diesen Gutschein zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot heraus und löst denselben bis 31. Dez. 1920 gegen gesetzliches Geld ein GEMEINDEAMT ALTAIST polit. Bezirk Perg OB.-ÖST. I. Vizebürgermeister Bürgermeister II. Vizebürgermeister Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft 1. Auflage |
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Altaist is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a piece of Kriegsgeld — wartime emergency money issued by municipalities during and after the First World War when small-denomination coinage virtually disappeared from circulation. Hundreds of Austrian communes printed their own Heller notes through local presses, creating an enormous variety of types that were theoretically valid only within the issuing community. The official stamp applied at issue was the primary — often the only — anti-counterfeiting measure.
P. Kling operated out of Linz-Urfahr, the northern bank settlement that was administratively separate from Linz until 1919.