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50 Heller Dunkelstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dunkelstein (Municipality of Dunkelstein) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on buff paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative wavy-line border with ornamental corner vignettes. The denomination numeral '50' appears in the upper left and upper right corners, flanking the central text block which carries the issuing authority legend and redemption clause in German script; the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appears at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Kassenschein der Gemeinde Dunkelstein über Fünfzig Heller wird über Beschluß des Gemeindeausschusses im Sinne der erfolgten Kundmachung von der Gemeinde bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Dunkelstein is a small locality in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities, it issued emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the later years of World War One and continued well into the early 1920s. The 50 Heller denomination places this squarely in the most common tier of that emergency currency wave, when metallic coins had largely vanished from everyday commerce through hoarding and wartime metal requisitioning.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0136-50 identifies it within the systematic Austrian Notgeld cataloguing framework. Dunkelstein issues are not frequently encountered in dealer stock — small municipal runs had limited print quantities and high attrition rates in actual daily use.