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50 Heller Altschwendt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altschwendt (Municipality of Altschwendt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Gemeinde 50 Altschwendt |
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| Reverse lettering | Gut-Schein 50 Kriegsnot ließ uns verstummen, Möge's Glück uns wieder brummen! Laut Ausschuß-Sitzungs-Beschluß vom 25. April 1920 gibt die Gemeinde Altschwendt Gutscheine aus und wird die Einlösung derselben durch eine eigene Kundmachung bekanntgegeben. Nachahmung verboten. Franz Altmann, Bürgermeister Heller Gemeinde Altschwendt Heller Sachalinde Voidlhaus |
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Altschwendt is a village in Upper Austria with a population that barely crested 500 in the early twentieth century — among the smallest communities to issue Notgeld during the postwar inflation crisis. The 1920 date places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency money, after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small communities unable to obtain sufficient small-denomination coinage from Vienna. Franz Altmann's signature as the sole authorizing official was typical of these village issues, where the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal officer simply signed off on the entire run.
Survival rates for rural Upper Austrian Heller notes are low. They were printed in small quantities, often on whatever paper was locally available.