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50 Heller Eisenerz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Eisenerz (Market Town of Eisenerz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain cream-coloured paper and consists entirely of a multi-line legal text block in German blackletter script, justified across the full width of the note. A decorative capital 'D' in a ruled box introduces the text at the upper left, citing the municipal council resolution of 30 April 1920 authorising the issue of vouchers up to a total of K 45,000 and stipulating the redemption conditions. The designer credit 'Entwurf Theodor Huber' appears in italic at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Eisenerz gibt auf Grund des Gemeinderatsbeschlusses vom 30. April 1920 Gutscheine bis zum Gesamtbetrage von K 45.000.— aus. Sie haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung zu nehmen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 gegen persönliche Vorweisung bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Entwurf Theodor Huber |
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Eisenerz is an alpine mining town in Styria whose entire economic identity was tied to the Erzberg — the stepped, open-pit iron ore mountain that has been worked continuously since the Middle Ages. This Heller note was issued in 1920 as part of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal authorities scrambling to produce small-denomination scrip to keep local commerce functioning.
Theodor Huber's involvement points to locally commissioned artwork rather than a generic printed blank — a distinction worth noting, since many Austrian Notgeld issues of this period were farmed out to Vienna printers who supplied stock designs. Eisenerz went its own way.