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50 Heller Asperhofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Asperhofen (Municipality of Asperhofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Light green-tinted reverse with a ruled outer border, the upper two-thirds occupied by a landscape vignette rendered in fine line work, showing a panoramic view of the village of Asperhofen with its church spire rising above the rooftops against a hilly background. Below the vignette, the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Asperhofen' appears in a guilloche underprint band, with the denomination 'Heller' in large blackletter script centred between two circular '50' corner medallions in the lower register. The printer credits 'A. Rohrhofer' and 'C. Queiser - Amstetten' appear in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Asperhofen Heller 50 50 A. Rohrhofer C. Queiser - Amstetten |
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Asperhofen is a small Lower Austrian village, and this note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded rural Austria between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal and communal authorities were legally permitted to issue these emergency fractions, and virtually every town with access to a printer did so. C. Queiser in Amstetten handled several such commissions from the surrounding Pielachtal region.
Designer A. Rohrhofer is otherwise unattributed in the major Notgeld references — almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than a trained engraver.