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50 Heller Ebelsberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ebelsberg (Municipality of Ebelsberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey Notgeld voucher printed in letterpress within a geometric guilloche border. The word 'Gutschein' appears in ornate Gothic script across the top, with the denomination 'FÜNFZIG HELLER' flanking a large stylised numeral '50' in the centre. The municipal coat of arms of Ebelsberg — a bear with a fish on a divided shield — occupies the lower centre, with redemption text divided to either side and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUT-SCHEIN ÜBER 50 HELLER DER GEMEINDE EBELSBERG EBELSBERG IM JAHRE 1677 STUMM · BIN · ICH · DOCH · EIN · ZEUGE VON HEIMATLICHER NOT DER · WELTKRIEG · BRACHT · UNS · ELEND ER · NAHM · UNS · FLEISCH · UND · BROT |
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Ebelsberg was an independent municipality on the southern outskirts of Linz when this note was issued — it would not be absorbed into the city of Linz until 1939. Like hundreds of small Austrian communes in 1920, it was forced into the notgeld business by a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage in the immediate postwar period, a problem the new Republic of Austria proved slow to solve at the national level.
The print run of over twelve million pieces is striking for a village-scale issuer and suggests either a regional printing contract or speculative overproduction for the collector trade, which was already distorting notgeld economics by 1920.