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50 Heller Bodendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bodendorf (Municipality of Bodendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig 50 Heller Gemeinde Bodendorf Ortschaft Ratsdorf Jos. Wall Linz |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Bodendorf Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Die Gemeinde Bodendorf haftet laut Gemeindeausschußsitzungsbeschlusses vom 2. Mai 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Jänner 1921 in gesetzlichem Baargelde einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister Reisinger |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine small-change crisis that persisted well after the First World War — metal coinage had been hoarded, melted, or simply withdrawn, leaving municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with their own printed fractional currency. Bodendorf's issue was part of a flood of locally authorized emergency notes sanctioned under postwar Austrian monetary disorganization, with the mayor's signature serving as the only formal guarantee of redemption.
Jos. Wall of Linz was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm. Notgeld from this class of printer tends to show simpler typographic layouts than the more elaborate "collector" issues some Austrian towns produced simultaneously to exploit tourist and philatelic demand.