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50 Heller Altlengbach
| Issuer | Altlengbach, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper, with a Fraktur script header reading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach' across the top. At left, the denomination '50 Heller' is set within a decorative guilloche border, below which a guarantee text in German is printed in three blocks, followed by the issue date 'Altlengbach, am 15. Mai 1920' and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. To the right, a detailed landscape vignette in fine line engraving presents a panoramic view of the village of Altlengbach, with a church spire and rooftops nestled among trees against a wooded hillside, framed by an oak-leaf decorative border; the printer's imprint 'Eduard Sieger, Wien' appears at the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach 50 Heller. Die Gemeinde Altlengbach haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Altlengbach, am 15. Mai 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der geschäftsführende Gemeinderat: |
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Altlengbach is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency small change — Notgeld — during the postwar currency collapse when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The Austrian government's failure to maintain a functioning coinage supply after 1918 pushed the burden down to the local level, producing an enormous variety of municipal scrip in denominations that would have been considered trivial in ordinary times.
Eduard Sieger of Vienna printed a significant volume of Lower Austrian municipal Notgeld during this period, which means the production quality here is competent but not exceptional. The JPR0033c suffix indicates this is one of several variants within the Altlengbach issue.