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50 Heller Anzbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Anzbach (Municipality of Anzbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 15 September 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 50 HELLER GEMEINDE ANZBACH BÜRGERMEISTER: VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: KOHLÖEIT BUCHBERG |
| Reverse description | The plain cream reverse is executed entirely in dark green letterpress without pictorial elements, opening with a three-line heading GUTSCHEIN / DER GEMEINDE / ANZBACH and a graduated denomination statement ÜBER / 50 / HELLER. A justified paragraph in smaller type sets out the emergency-issue rationale and redemption terms — specifying acceptance by the Gemeinde until 15 September 1920, cash redemption between 15 August and 15 September 1920, and a statutory warning against counterfeiting — with the printer's imprint CHWALA & DRUCK. WIEN VII. ZIEGLERG. 61 at the foot. |
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Anzbach is a small market commune in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War left the central monetary system unable to supply adequate small change. Thousands of communes issued their own emergency fractional currency between roughly 1919 and 1922; the sheer volume printed by Chwala & Druck in Vienna for rural communities across Lower Austria makes this printer one of the more prolific suppliers of provincial Austrian Notgeld.
The Heller itself was already a dying unit — Austria would abolish it entirely with the introduction of the Schilling system in 1925.