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50 Heller Buchkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Buchkirchen (Municipality of Buchkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in ochre-brown ink and carries the municipal guarantee text in a central panel, flanked on the left by a framed vignette of the Austrian imperial coat of arms. To the right of the text block, a silhouette underprint vignette shows a farmer ploughing a field with two oxen. Two manuscript signatures appear beneath the text, attributed to the Vizebürgermeister and the Bürgermeister respectively, with a further anti-counterfeiting notice at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Lingemann (Vizebürgermeister) and Carl Jungmann (Bürgermeister) |
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Buchkirchen is a small Upper Austrian village, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria and Germany after the First World War, when coin shortages — driven by metal hoarding and wartime requisitioning — forced even minor rural municipalities to print their own emergency small change. F. Prietzel of Steyr was a regional printer who handled several such commissions in Upper Austria, keeping production local and costs low.
The designer credit to "Wagner" is unresolved — no first name confirmed, almost certainly a Steyr commercial artist rather than anyone of wider note.