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50 Heller Bachmanning
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bachmanning (Municipality of Bachmanning) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the obverse is set in large Gothic block lettering reading 'GUTSCHEIN GEMEINDE' across the top and 'BACHMANNING' along the bottom, framing a central oval vignette enclosed by a dotted guilloche border. The oval contains a German-script text block recording the municipality's redemption obligation, dated 'Bachmanning im Juni 1920' with the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. A narrow vertical panel at the right margin carries an anti-counterfeiting warning legend in italic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN GEMEINDE BACHMANNING Die Gemeinde Bachmanning gibt Totscheine in der Höhe von 10.000 Kude zu 50 h aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1.–15. Juni 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Bachmanning im Juni 1920 der Bürgermeister Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft |
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Bachmanning is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller notgeld is exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency issue that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922 when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg currency system left rural municipalities without adequate small change. These community-issued pieces were technically unauthorized but tolerated — the central government lacked both the will and the capacity to suppress them.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR0072Ic suffix indicates a specific color or paper variant within the Bachmanning series, which ran at minimum across the 10, 20, and 50 Heller denominations. Collector demand for complete municipality sets has kept even unremarkable villages like Bachmanning well-documented in the specialist literature.