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50 Heller Edlbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Edlbach (Municipality of Edlbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 July 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Edlbach haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Der Gemeindevorsteher: Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Green on cream paper, arranged in a compartmentalised layout with the denomination numeral '50' in each corner. The upper register carries the bold Gothic-script heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Edlbach', while the central panel contains a four-line verse in ornate German script. The lower register bears an anti-counterfeiting warning in Gothic script, with the printer's imprint 'Norbertus-Druckerei, Wien, III.' in small Roman type beneath the lower border, and the validity date 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921' running along both lateral margins. |
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Edlbach is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller Notgeld is exactly what the postwar emergency currency program produced by the thousands across the Austrian countryside — local scrip issued to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system in 1918. The Norbertus-Druckerei in Vienna's third district was a Catholic press operated by the Premonstratensian order, which accounts for its appearance on commissions from rural Upper Austrian municipalities with strong ecclesiastical ties.