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50 Heller Gars am Kamp
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gars am Kamp (Market Town of Gars am Kamp) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Marktgemeinde GARS am Kamp. / Fünfzig 50 Heller / Die Gemeinde haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. / Gars am 28. April 1920 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is text-based, with the denomination «50 h» in large bold type at the left margin over a faint oval watermark-style underprint. To the upper right, a four-line German verse in blackletter script laments the inflationary deficit. Below, a prose redemption notice in Fraktur type states that the Kassenschein is non-interest-bearing and will be redeemed in legal tender by the Marktgemeinde Gars between 1 and 31 December 1920. At foot, a counterfeiting warning and the printer's imprint appear. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was typically a local fiscal stopgap, but the Gars am Kamp series has a following among collectors partly due to Karl Elleder's involvement — he was a local artist whose designs for several Lower Austrian Notgeld issues gave them a character well above the average municipal emergency note. F. Berger in Horn was the dominant small-format printer for this corner of Lower Austria, handling numerous Notgeld commissions for towns in the Kamp valley during the postwar currency shortage.
The liability clause on the note — pledging the commune's entire movable and immovable assets against the obligation — was legally standard but rarely so explicitly worded.