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50 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple on plain cream paper within a rectangular dashed border. The centre is occupied by a circular municipal seal of Eggenburg showing a fortified gate tower with the Latin legend around the circumference, captioned below 'Stadtwappen aus dem 14. Jahrhundert'. Explanatory redemption text is set in Fraktur script to the left and right of the seal, and a two-line verse in Gothic script runs across the top of the field. An anti-counterfeiting warning appears at the foot, above the printer's imprint. |
| Reverse lettering | Gold in goldener Zeit, und Eisen in eisernen Tagen. Jetzo nur hält uns Papier. Wich' es doch balde dem Gold! Die Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 15.-31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld ein und haftet für diese Verpflichtung mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Stadtwappen aus dem 14. Jahrhundert Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Pressevereindruckerei Eggenburg |
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Eggenburg's 50 Heller Notgeld was printed locally by the Pressevereindruckerei — the press cooperative operating within the town itself — making it one of the more self-contained issues of the Austrian municipal emergency money wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg crown currency system. Most Notgeld of this period was farmed out to Vienna printers; a town producing its own is worth noting.
The 1920 date places this in the second phase of Austrian Notgeld, after the acute shortage emergency had technically passed but before stabilization made small-denomination substitutes unnecessary. Many issues from this period were produced as much for collector sale as for local exchange.