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| Emittent | Gemeinde Haidershofen (Municipality of Haidershofen) |
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| Jahr | 1920 |
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| Nennwert | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse carries a central landscape vignette of the local parish church with a pointed steeple set amid trees, with a river scene and a figure in a rowing boat in the foreground. The year '19 20' appears split across the left and right inner borders within decorative scroll ornaments. Below the vignette, the denomination is stated in large letterpress text 'Fünfzig. 50 Heller', with the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Haidershofen / Nieder-Österreich' inscribed above the vignette. The whole design is framed by a fine decorative border of repeating scroll motifs. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Gemeinde Haidershofen Nieder-Österreich Fünfzig. 50 Heller 19 20 |
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Haidershofen is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian and German communities after the First World War. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian currency system left local governments scrambling to produce small-denomination emergency money to cover the chronic shortage of coins in everyday commerce. Emil Prietzel was a Steyr-based printer who took on a significant volume of municipal Notgeld commissions in this period — a regional job printer suddenly doing monetary work by necessity.
The 50 Heller denomination sits at the practical heart of the Notgeld phenomenon: small enough to fill a gap left by vanished coinage, not large enough to attract serious forgery.