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50 Heller Altenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altenberg (Municipality of Altenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress vignette on cream paper, centred on a panoramic townscape view of Altenberg with a prominent church steeple and village rooftops set against a clouded sky. Allegorical putti flank the central scene on left and right, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each corner. The legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Altenberg' arches across the upper portion in ornate Gothic script, while a cartouche at the lower centre bears the value inscription 'Fünfzig Heller'; the artist's signature 'L. Haase' appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress design on cream paper with a simple decorative border of dotted circles enclosing a stylised foliate arch motif at the top, flanked by Art Nouveau leaf ornaments in the upper corners. The denomination '50 HELLER 50' is set in bold within ruled rectangular frames across the upper centre. Below, a three-line authorisation text states the issue resolution date of 15 May 1920 and the total amount of 30,000 Kronen, followed by the place and date 'Altenberg, am 15. Mai 1920', the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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Austrian Notgeld from the early 1920s occupies a strange corner of monetary history — not quite emergency currency, not quite souvenir, but increasingly both simultaneously. By 1920, many Austrian municipalities had shifted from printing purely functional small-change substitutes toward deliberately collectible issues, knowing full well that philatelists and Notgeld collectors would hoard them unspent. Altenberg's 50 Heller falls squarely in that transitional moment.
L. Haase is a name that appears across several Austrian local issues of this period, though documentation on the designer remains thin. The JPR0025b suffix indicates this is a variant within the Altenberg series — worth confirming whether the distinguishing factor is color, paper stock, or a typography change.