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| Issuer | Gemeinde Anzbach (Municipality of Anzbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in purple on cream paper by typeset letterpress, the reverse presents a full text panel headed GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ANZBACH ÜBER 50 HELLER in bold display type, followed by a continuous paragraph in German setting out the conditions of issue, validity period, and redemption terms, with a statutory warning against counterfeiting. The edition designation 2. AUFLAGE (Second Issue) appears in spaced capitals below the text block, and the printer's imprint SHWALA'S DRUCK, WIEN VI., ZIEGLERG. 61 is set at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ANZBACH ÜBER 50 HELLER Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Anzbach Gutscheine aus. Diese Gutscheine lauten auf 50 Heller, sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Anzbach bis 15. Jänner 1921 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 15. Dezember 1920 bis 15. Jänner 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. — Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 2. A U F L A G E. SHWALA'S DRUCK, WIEN VI., ZIEGLERG. 61 |
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Anzbach is a small market commune in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the Habsburg monetary system in collapse and small coinage essentially vanished from circulation, thousands of communes issued their own emergency paper. Anzbach was among the more modest participants — no elaborate series, no collector-targeted imagery of the kind that larger towns cynically produced for the philatelic trade.
Printed by Shwala's Druck in Vienna, a small commercial house that handled a number of provincial Notgeld contracts during this period.