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50 Heller Aschach a. d. Donau
| Uitgever | Marktgemeinde Aschach an der Donau |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Waarde | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Heller 50 Aschach a. d. Donau 1920 Gutschein 50 um 1 Prix |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed in blue-grey on a dense guilloche underprint composed of interlocking fine scrollwork that covers the entire field, framed by a decorative floral-scroll border running along all four edges. A large red-brown overprint of the denomination '50 Heller' appears centrally in Gothic display lettering, overlying the primary text block. The main legend, set in Gothic script, identifies this note as a Notgeld voucher of the Marktgemeinde Aschach, provides the legal backing clause referencing a reserve fund and a redemption period of four weeks after public announcement, and is followed by manuscript-style signature lines. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Aschach an der Donau is a small market town on the Upper Austrian stretch of the Danube, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the postwar collapse of the Habsburg currency system leaving small change essentially nonexistent, hundreds of towns like Aschach issued their own emergency paper rather than wait for Vienna to solve the problem. The Marktgemeinde had neither a bank nor a printing house of its own — most issues at this scale were jobbed out to regional printers in Linz or similar centers.
By 1922, the Austrian Notgeld redemption decrees rendered these locally issued pieces worthless for exchange, and many were simply discarded. Survivors today come almost entirely from collector sets assembled during the period itself, when the novelty of town-specific issues had already created a secondary philatelic market.