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50 Heller Egelsee
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Enns (City of Enns) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned notgeld printed in letterpress on cream paper. A central circular vignette enclosed by a beaded border presents a view of the tower on the town wall of Enns (inscribed below: 'Turm a.d. Stadtmauer'), framed by ornamental garland swags with ribbons at each corner. The denomination numerals '50' appear in large decorative script at lower left and lower right, with 'Fünfzig' at lower left and 'Heller' at lower right. The issuer inscription 'Stadt Enns O.Ö.' runs across the upper portion in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zweite Auflage Einlösungszeit bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Die Stadtgemeinde Enns gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Betrage von 56.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die richtige Einlösung dieser Scheine in gesetzlichem Bargelde mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Der Bürgermeister: 1. Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Gemeinderats: 2. Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Buchdruckerei Enns |
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Enns, in Upper Austria, holds the distinction of being one of the oldest towns in Austria — Roman Lauriacum — but this 50 Heller note has nothing to do with antiquity tourism. It belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the First World War, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small denominations functionally unavailable and local governments scrambled to fill the gap with their own printed scrip.
Buchdruckerei Enns was a local commercial printer, not a specialist security printer. Municipal Notgeld of this type was never intended to circulate beyond the issuing town, and most pieces were redeemed quickly once the national currency stabilized — which makes the Egelsee designation on this particular piece worth noting, as it suggests sub-municipal or district-level distribution within the Enns area.