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50 Heller Garsten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Garsten (Municipality of Garsten) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Garsten. Fünfzig Heller Die Gemeinde Garsten gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Betrage von 100.000 Kr. aus u. werden zwei Monate nach Ausgabe eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister Der Vizebürgermeister Der Vizebürgermeister Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Emil Prietzel, Steyr. 50 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on salmon-toned paper and carries a large central panoramic vignette of the town of Garsten, rendered in fine engraved style, showing the Baroque monastery church and surrounding townscape set against a wooded hillside. The scene is enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with decorative scroll ornaments at the corners and sides. The issuer's name appears in Art Nouveau-style lettering across the top, divided by a central scroll motif, while the denomination is repeated at the lower left and lower right in bold letterpress numerals and text. |
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Garsten is a small market community in Upper Austria, directly adjacent to Steyr, and its Heller notgeld emerged from the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed Austrian commerce during and immediately after the First World War. Municipal authorities across the country were forced to commission their own emergency fractions — the imperial monetary system had effectively stopped supplying usable coinage, and transactions under a Krone became nearly impossible without local substitutes.
Emil Prietzel was a Steyr-based printer, and his proximity to Garsten made him the obvious choice for several neighboring municipalities issuing notgeld during this period. The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0224-50 places this squarely within the documented Upper Austrian municipal series.