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50 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark red on plain paper within an elaborate Art Nouveau border composed of interlocking oval and foliate motifs at the corners and along all sides. The denomination 'Fünfzig 50 Heller' is set in large bold display type at the top, followed by a block of text in smaller roman type setting out the municipality's redemption guarantee and the expiry date of 31 December 1920, with an anti-counterfeiting warning in italics at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Eschenau haftet für diesen Gutschein mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen und löst selben bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft |
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Eschenau is a small market town in the Hainfeld district of Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from 1914 onward. These Notgeld issues were a practical local response — small coins had vanished from circulation almost immediately after war broke out, hoarded by the public or melted down. Municipal authorities were left to fill the gap themselves.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0186a places this among the documented Lower Austrian series, though surviving examples from minor rural issuers like Eschenau are genuinely uncommon — small-town print runs were modest and redemption rates high.