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50 Heller Eidenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eidenberg (Municipality of Eidenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is occupied by a detailed letterpress vignette of the Gisela-Warte observation tower set among conifer trees, rendered in a fine line-art style typical of Austrian Notgeld issues; the tower's iron-railed upper viewing platform and stone lower structure are clearly delineated. The lower left carries the denomination '50 HELLER' in a bold box, while the centre panel bears a four-line dialect verse in Gothic script. The lower right panel carries the issuer designation 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE EIDENBERG' with ornamental serial control letters, and the upper right corner bears the inscription 'GISELA KARTE 926' with the designer's name 'JOSEF KREMPEL' at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Weixlbaumer |
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Eidenberg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing Notgeld during the postwar currency chaos when small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from everyday commerce. The Josef Krempel attribution is notable — he was a local designer responsible for several Upper Austrian Notgeld issues, working within a tradition of commissioning regional artists rather than commercial printers to give these emergency notes a distinctly local character.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly within the documented Austrian municipal series, but surviving examples from Eidenberg are scarce relative to issues from larger towns. Franz Weixlbaumer's signature identifies him as the authorizing municipal official.