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50 Heller Eggenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eggenberg (Municipality of Eggenberg) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Pink notgeld printed by letterpress in black ink throughout. The upper field carries the issuer inscription GEMEINDE EGGENBERG above the sub-district legend BEZIRK VÖCKLABRUCK, flanked by ornamental scroll borders. A central oval vignette presents a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across a field, with a farmstead and alpine hills in the background; the denomination 50 HELLER appears in large numerals to either side of the vignette, and GUTSCHEIN is set in decorative script along the lower margin above a guilloche scroll ornament. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE EGGENBERG BEZIRK VÖCKLABRUCK 50 HELLER GUTSCHEIN |
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Eggenberg was an independent municipality west of Graz until its absorption into the city in 1938. This 50 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued during and after the First World War, when the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left municipal authorities printing their own small-denomination emergency scrip to cover the chronic shortage of coins in everyday trade.
The JPR reference places it within Jaksch's Austrian local issue catalogue — a series so numerically dense that many individual Gemeinde issues survive in single-digit quantities today.