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50 Heller Freinberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Freinberg (Municipality of Freinberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in black on buff paper, with a decorative foliate border incorporating stylised tree vignettes at the upper corners. The upper portion carries the issuing authority and denomination in Gothic blackletter script, with the large numeral '50' at centre. Below, the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appears above the validity date. The lower half presents a detailed landscape vignette of the village of Freinberg, with a church steeple rising above rooftops set against a radiant sunburst sky. |
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| Obverse lettering | Not Geld Gemeinde · Heller · Freinberg 50 der Bürgermeister Gültig bis 31. Dezbr. 1920 |
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Freinberg is a small village municipality in Upper Austria near the German border, and this 50 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1922, when chronic coin shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg economy forced even tiny rural communities to print their own fractional currency. At its peak, thousands of Austrian municipalities issued these emergency pieces — some as genuine stopgaps, others increasingly as collectibles sold to dealers almost from the moment they were printed.
The JPR reference series documents the Upper Austrian issues systematically. Variety "Ib" within the Freinberg listing indicates a secondary print run or paper variant distinguished from the first issue.