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50 Heller Egelsee
| Issuer | Dorfgemeinde Egelsee (Village Municipality of Egelsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The plain cream-toned reverse carries a fully typeset text in German Fraktur script, centered on the note, stating the legal basis and total issue amount of 25,000 Kronen, the validity period through 31 December 1920, and the redemption window from 15 to 31 December of that year by the Dorfgemeinde Egelsee. A counterfeiting warning closes the main text, with the printer's imprint "Chwala's Druck, Wien VII. Zieglerg. 61" set in small roman type at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Dorfgemeinde Egelsee Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 25.000 K aus. Diese Scheine sind giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 und werden in der Zeit vom 15. Dezember bis 31. Dezember d. J. von der Gemeinde Egelsee eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. CHWALA'S DRUCK, WIEN VII. ZIEGLERG. 61 |
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Egelsee is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it issued notgeld during the postwar currency chaos of 1920 when small-denomination coinage had all but disappeared from circulation. The Heller series from these village communes was a practical stopgap, rarely travelling far — most were redeemed locally and destroyed, which makes intact survivors from minor issuers like Egelsee genuinely uncommon.
Chwala's Druck in Vienna's seventh district handled a substantial volume of provincial notgeld printing during this period, producing workmanlike results under the designer credit of F. Romrhofer — an attribution that appears on several Lower Austrian commune issues from the same press run.