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50 Heller Grünbach bei Freistadt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grünbach bei Freistadt (Municipality of Grünbach bei Freistadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 January 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Grünbach b. Freistadt St. Michael. 50 Heller 50 Heller |
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| Signature(s) | Leopold Fischerlehner and Firklbauer |
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Grünbach bei Freistadt is a small Upper Austrian village, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 to address a crippling shortage of small-denomination coins following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. L. Haase in Linz was a regional printer handling dozens of such commissions simultaneously, which shows in the workmanship. The two signatories — Fischerlehner and Firklbauer — were local officials who personally authorized scrip backed by nothing more than the municipality's word and the expectation that the coin shortage would eventually resolve.