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50 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in violet on cream paper, is framed by a simple ruled border and centres on a circular vignette of the medieval town seal of Eggenburg, captioned 'Stadtwappen aus dem 15. Jahrhundert'. Two lines of Gothic verse run across the top: 'Gold in goldener Zeit, und Eisen in eisernen Tagen. / Jetzo nur hält uns Papier. Wich' es doch balde dem Gold!' A redemption text in blackletter script, split around the central seal, states that the Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg will redeem the note in legal tender between 15 and 31 December 1920, pledging all movable and immovable assets. The anti-counterfeiting warning 'Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft' appears at the foot, with the printer's imprint below. |
| 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 15. Jahrhundert Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Pressevereinsdruckerei Eggenburg. |
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Eggenburg is a small walled town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1916 onward. The Pressevereinsdruckerei was a local press operation, meaning this note was designed, printed, and circulated entirely within the same town, an unusual degree of self-sufficiency even by Notgeld standards.
The JPR0162b designation indicates this is the second variety of the 50 Heller denomination within the Eggenburg series — differences between varieties typically involve minor typographic or color changes rather than plate redesigns.