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50 Heller Erla
| Issuer | Gemeinde Erla (Municipality of Erla) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Erla bei St. Valentin Nied.-Oesterr. gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Betrage von 32.000 Kronen aus. G.R.B. 5. 1920. Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31.XII. 1920 an der Gemeindekassa in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Notgeldschein der Gemeinde Erla bei St. Valentin N-Öst Erla Closter 1672 |
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Erla is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The central government could not produce enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand, so municipalities were effectively left to print their own. These locally issued scrip notes were rarely intended to circulate beyond the issuing community.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0180-50 places this firmly within the Austrian municipal Notgeld series, a category where survival rates vary enormously by village — some issues were produced in quantities of only a few hundred.