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| Issuer | Gemeinde Freinberg (Municipality of Freinberg) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Not Geld Gemeinde · Heller · Freinberg 50 der Bürgermeister Gültig bis 31 Dezbr. 1920 |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Freinberg 50 Heller 50 Heller |
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Freinberg is a tiny municipality in Upper Austria, near the German border at Passau. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes from 1919 onward, when the post-war collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities starved of small-denomination coinage. Municipalities issued their own emergency paper rather than wait for Vienna to solve the problem.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR0211 series for Freinberg is obscure even by Notgeld standards — Freinberg's population was well under a thousand, meaning total print runs were negligible and local redemption was erratic at best.