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50 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned Notgeld printed in a Germanic blackletter typeface, with the heading 'Gutschein' in large ornate script across the upper register, flanked at upper left by a vignette of a Romanesque church tower. The denomination '50 Heller' appears at right in large numerals. The lower two-thirds of the note is occupied by a panoramic pen-and-ink vignette of Eggenburg's townscape at dusk, with a dramatic sky rendered in fine cross-hatched lines above the city walls and a Gothic church steeple. Validity and issuing authority inscriptions appear in the upper text band, with three manuscript signature lines below. |
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| 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 25.-31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bar- geld ein und haftet für diese Verpflichtung mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Stadtwappen aus dem 15. Jahrhundert. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Gemeindebuchdruckerei Eggenburg |
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Eggenburg's 50 Heller Notgeld belongs to the massive wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency issued in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible across much of the former imperial territory. The Stadtgemeinde printed these locally through its own municipal press — an unusual degree of self-sufficiency that kept production costs down but also meant no independent oversight of issue quantities.
The Jaksc/Pick reference suffix "d" indicates a distinct variety within the Eggenburg 50 Heller series, suggesting multiple printings or paper variants exist for this denomination alone.