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50 Heller Dimbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dimbach (Municipality of Dimbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted Notgeld gutschein printed in a single colour, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each corner within scrollwork vignettes. A central oval panel contains a detailed landscape view of the village of Dimbach, Upper Austria, with a church steeple rising above clustered houses and tree-lined hills. Below the vignette, a cartouche carries the validity statement, the denomination in words, and two manuscript signatures with the printed name 'H. Kugler' to the right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface with only a faint ghost impression of the obverse design visible as a show-through underprint, confirming the single-sided production typical of Austrian Notgeld emergency issues of this period. |
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Dimbach is a village in Upper Austria with a population that, in 1920, numbered only a few hundred souls. That such a minor settlement issued its own notgeld is less surprising than it sounds — the postwar coin shortage across Austria was severe enough that thousands of municipalities, down to the smallest market towns and farming villages, were authorized to print emergency small-change notes. Most of these Heller issues circulated only within the issuing community and were redeemed within a year or two.
The 1920 dating places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian notgeld, after the 1919 authorization broadened eligibility to rural communes.