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50 Heller Enzesfeld
| Issuer | Gemeinde Enzesfeld (Municipality of Enzesfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ENZESFELD 50 HELLER GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMB. 1920. DIE GEMEINDE ENZESFELD HAFTET FÜR DIE EINLÖSUNG DIESER GUTSCHEINE. DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER SCHRIFTF. GEMEINDERATS ROBERT LEITNER |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Enzesfeld. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Enzesfeld Kassenscheine aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich und werden laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 5. Juni 1920 in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachmachung wird gesetzl. bestraft. 50 |
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Enzesfeld's 50 Heller notgeld was issued amid the catastrophic currency fragmentation that followed Austria-Hungary's dissolution — by 1920, the new Austrian republic was hemorrhaging coin from circulation as metal hoarding made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible in smaller communities. Municipalities across Lower Austria issued their own emergency paper to fill the gap, and Enzesfeld was among hundreds that did so.
Robert Leitner designed the note locally. Small-town notgeld designers of this period were often schoolteachers, pharmacists, or amateur artists — rarely trained printers — which gives many pieces an idiosyncratic quality absent from central bank issues.