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50 Heller Hartheim
| Issuer | Hartheim, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Woodcut-style vignette occupying the central field portrays Hartheim Castle set among trees, flanked by two allegorical female figures in folk costume, one to each lateral panel. The denomination '50 HELLER 50' is boldly printed in a decorative border across the top, with 'HARTHEIMER NOTGELD' in large capitals beneath the central vignette. The lower register carries validity and redemption text in a grid of compartments, with three manuscript signatures along the bottom edge and the artists' names 'W. BAIKAME' and 'G. BOEINGER' noted at the lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Hartheim is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian towns between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left small denominations almost entirely absent from daily commerce — coins had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of villages and market towns to print their own emergency scrip simply to make change.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this squarely in the documented series for Upper Austrian municipal issues. Hartheim examples are not among the rarer Notgeld survivors, but the 1920 dating puts it in the second year of serious municipal issuance, after the initial frantic printings of 1919.