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50 Heller Auberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Auberg (Municipality of Auberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown on cream paper, the obverse carries a detailed landscape vignette of the Ruine Schönberg ruins set against a hillside panorama with farmsteads and conifers in the foreground, executed in a linear woodcut-like style. The issuer inscription GEMEINDE AUBERG appears in bold lettering across the top, with the caption "Ruine Schönberg Anno 1674" inscribed within the vignette. The denomination 50 HELLER is rendered in large stylised Art Nouveau numerals and lettering along the lower portion, flanked by ornamental spiral motifs at the upper corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE AUBERG Ruine Schönberg Anno 1674. 50 Heller 50 |
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Auberg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued emergency small change — Notgeld — during the postwar period when metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The Austrian state was in no position to supply it. Local authorities filled the gap themselves, often printing runs so small that survival rates are surprisingly low despite the notes being less than a century old.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0066a places this within the standard Upper Austrian municipal series. Parish-level Notgeld from villages this size typically circulated within a tight geographic radius and was redeemed quickly once federal coinage restabilized — most never traveled far from the issuing office.