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50 Heller Amstetten
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Amstetten |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Amstetten Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 fünfzig Heller Die Stadtgemeinde Amstetten haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hierfür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Bürgermeister Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter Stadtgemeinderat |
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| Signature(s) | Carl Kubista and Jos. Millerbacher and Lud. Resch |
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Amstetten's 50 Heller notgeld from 1920 belongs to the tail end of Austria's municipal emergency currency wave — by this point the postwar hyperinflationary pressure had made small-denomination coinage functionally useless, and hundreds of towns were printing their own scrip out of necessity rather than civic pride. C. Queiser was a local Amstetten printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which accounts for the modest production quality typical of these provincial issues.
Three signatories is unusual for a note this small — Kubista, Millerbacher, and Resch likely represented separate municipal offices, a bureaucratic formality that outlasted the currency itself.