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50 Heller Gilgenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gilgenberg (Municipality of Gilgenberg) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on buff paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The heading 'Gutschein' appears at top centre in Gothic blackletter script, followed by 'über' and the denomination 'Heller 50 Heller' in large bold type. Below, the issuing authority 'Gemeinde Gilgenberg' is set in prominent Gothic lettering, with a multi-line legal redemption clause in smaller blackletter text beneath. The Bürgermeister's facsimile signature 'J. Hartl' appears at the foot, above the printer's imprint. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a finely executed pen-and-ink style vignette set within an arched cartouche, portraying a rural landscape with a Gothic church steeple and adjacent buildings flanked by trees, a solitary figure on a foreground path, and open skies above. The denomination numeral '50' appears in the upper left and upper right corners. An ornate geometric lattice border frames the entire composition, and the inscription 'Gemeinde Gilgenberg' is set in Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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Gilgenberg am Weilhart is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced at the municipal level during the acute coin shortage that followed World War One. The printer, Josef Stampfl & Comp. operating under Leop. Höglinger, was a local Braunau am Inn firm — regional print shops across Austria took on enormous volumes of these emergency fractional issues between roughly 1919 and 1921.
The single signatory, J. Hartl, almost certainly served as Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official at the time of issue. No further biographical record is readily attached to the name.