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50 Heller Gramastetten
| Issuer | Marktkommune Gramastetten |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress notgeld printed on cream paper. The central vignette, signed by artist Hugo Gielge at lower right, presents a pastoral rural scene divided into two flanking panels: at left, a farmer ploughing with a horse-drawn implement; at right, a hunter or woodsman among bare trees, with rolling countryside in the background. A crosshatch-patterned cartouche at centre accommodates the issuing authority's manuscript signature above the legend 'Der Vorstand'. Denomination numeral '50' appears in circular frames at upper left and upper right, and the value 'Fünfzig Heller' is rendered in large Gothic script across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Heller 50 Heller Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft |
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Gramastetten is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922 — a period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down in the chaos following the empire's collapse. Thousands of towns issued their own emergency paper, most of it locally designed and printed to wildly varying standards.
Hugo Gielge was among the more capable designers working in this regional Notgeld genre. His involvement here suggests the commune invested some effort in presentation rather than simply running off plain coupons.