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50 Heller Altlengbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altlengbach (Municipality of Altlengbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green notgeld note with an ornamental leafy border framing the entire face. To the left, the denomination '50 Heller' is set in bold Gothic blackletter within a decorative cartouche, below the heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach' in Gothic script. To the right, a detailed landscape vignette rendered in a fine engraved style presents a view of the village of Altlengbach, with a church steeple rising amid trees against a hillside backdrop. Below the vignette, the issue date 'Altlengbach, am 15. Mai 1920' appears alongside three manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and geschäftsführende Gemeinderat, with the printer's imprint 'Eduard Sieger, Wien' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-white reverse printed in dark brown ink without pictorial vignette. A simple dotted and geometric border frames the text field; the denomination numeral '50' appears in ornamental boxes at both left and right corners of the upper register, flanking the heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach' in Gothic script. The central text block explains the conditions of issue and redemption of the interest-free emergency currency notes, with an anti-counterfeiting warning at foot. |
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Altlengbach is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War — small denominations issued locally to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The national government in Vienna neither supplied adequate small change nor effectively prohibited these municipal emissions, so hundreds of communities printed their own.
Eduard Sieger operated a reputable Vienna printing house that handled a significant volume of Lower Austrian Notgeld contracts during this period. The 1920 date places this issue in the second, more settled phase of Austrian municipal Notgeld — less desperate than 1918, but still filling a genuine gap before the currency system stabilized.