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50 heller eben am achensee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eben am Achensee (Municipality of Eben am Achensee, Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 heller EBEN AM ACHENSEE GAISALPE AM ACHENSEE WAGNER, INNSBRUCK |
| Reverse description | Upper portion carries a rectangular vignette of the Erfurter Hütte alpine refuge set against a rugged mountain panorama with conifer trees framing the scene on either side, the caption 'ERFURTER HÜTTE' inscribed on a banner beneath it. The lower central area contains a text panel in Gothic blackletter script stating the municipality's liability guarantee with a validity date of 1 March 1921, signed by the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister. The denomination '50 h.' appears in the lower left and lower right corners, with the print edition notation '1. AUFLAGE' in the lower left margin. |
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Eben am Achensee is a small Tirolean village on the southern shore of the Achensee, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage in the years following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Wagner was a well-established Innsbruck printer responsible for a significant portion of Tirolean municipal Notgeld output during this period, which gives these small issues a degree of production consistency unusual for emergency currency.
The 50 Heller denomination was among the most commonly needed for daily transactions, which typically means higher print runs and correspondingly lower surviving condition grades.