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50 Heller Haizendorf
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Haizendorf (Municipality of Haizendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in green, bearing a two-column rhyming verse in Gothic blackletter script occupying the upper half of the note. Below the verse, the bold inscription 'Notgeld der Ortsgemeinde Haizendorf.' is set in large display type, followed by the validity legend 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920.' A double rule border flanks the anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot of the note. A faint watermark-style underprint is discernible in the centre field. |
| Reverse lettering | Niemand hätt' es je gedacht, Daß die Gemeinde Geld sich macht. Das Beste hat der Feind geholt Wie Kupfer, Nickel, Silber, Gold. An großen Noten gibt's zwar viel, Doch Niemand sie gern nehmen will, Denn sind sie auch zum Großteil echt, So steht doch die Valuta schlecht. Drum greift man heute allgemein Zum wirklich sich'r.n Kassenschein! Notgeld der Ortsgemeinde Haizendorf. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Haizendorf is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — when the postwar coin shortage left rural populations without small change. The municipal issues of 1920 occupy the tail end of the Austrian Notgeld wave; by this point the central government had repeatedly promised to resolve the shortage, and many of these late village issues circulated only briefly before being recalled or simply abandoned as inflation made the denominations irrelevant anyway.
Haizendorf's issue is among the more obscure municipal pieces from the region — the village itself had fewer than a thousand inhabitants at the time.