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50 Heller Asten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Asten (Municipality of Asten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Tage der Not, wann werdet ihr enden? Wann wird der Himmel uns besseres senden? Gemeinde Asten J. E. Kleinert, Ottensheim |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 HELLER Die Gemeinde Asten bei Enns in Oberösterreich gibt laut Beschluß vom 9. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 20.000 K aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Asten, 9. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: K. Huber. Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Asten is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued Notgeld during the postwar coin shortage that left everyday transactions nearly impossible. The 50 Heller denomination was the workhorse of local emergency issues — small enough to replace missing copper and bronze coinage, but substantial enough to cover routine purchases. J. E. Kleinert of Ottensheim was a regional job printer, not a specialist security firm, which is why these hyperlocal issues vary considerably in paper quality and impression consistency even within the same print run.
The single signature of K. Huber — almost certainly the Bürgermeister at the time — reflects the informal authority under which these notes were validated.