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50 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A photographic vignette occupies the upper portion of the note, presenting a panoramic landscape view of the village of Eschenau set against a backdrop of rolling hills, with scattered buildings and a church visible among trees. Below the vignette, the issuer name 'Gemeinde Eschenau' and the denomination '50 HELLER' are printed in large green letterpress type, flanked by decorative Art Nouveau scroll ornaments. To the right, three manuscript signatures appear above printed labels identifying the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat, with a border of repeating arrow motifs framing the lower edge. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on a cream paper ground and enclosed within a decorative Art Nouveau border of interlocking oval and leaf motifs at the corners and sides. The denomination 'Fünfzig 50 Heller' is set in large display type across the upper portion, followed by a block of Gothic-script text setting out the municipality's guarantee of redemption and the expiry date. A cautionary legend against counterfeiting appears at the foot of the text block. |
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Eschenau is a small village in the Pielach valley, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the postwar currency chaos of 1920, it issued its own Notgeld rather than wait for an adequate supply of small change from Vienna. These hyperlocal notes were a practical fix — the central government simply could not produce and distribute low-denomination coins fast enough to meet everyday commerce.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0186a places this among the catalogued Lower Austrian municipal issues, though survival rates for village-level Heller notes vary considerably. Many were redeemed quickly and pulped.