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50 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress vignette occupying the lower two-thirds of the note, rendered in an expressive woodcut style and depicting a panoramic view of Eggenburg with city walls, rooftops, and a pointed church spire under a dramatically striated sky. At upper left, a Gothic architectural vignette — likely a church window — is set within a dark panel. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at upper right alongside the word 'Heller' in Gothic script, while the heading 'Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg' is inscribed in ornate Fraktur lettering across the top, followed by the validity line 'Gültigkeitsdauer bis 31. Dezember 1920' and three manuscript facsimile signature lines. |
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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 15.-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. Pressvereinsbuchdruckerei, Eggenburg. |
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Eggenburg's Heller notgeld series belongs to the wave of locally-issued emergency scrip that flooded Lower Austria between 1919 and 1921, filling the gap left by chronic small-denomination coin shortages in the aftermath of Habsburg dissolution. The Pressvereinsbuchdruckerei — the press association's printing house — was the town's own facility, which meant the municipality controlled production without outside contract, an unusual degree of local self-sufficiency for a town of this size.
The JPR0162c suffix indicates this is one of multiple 50 Heller variants within the Eggenburg series, distinguished by minor typographic or color differences catalogued by Jaksch.