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50 Heller Hausmening
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hausmening (Municipality of Hausmening) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG 50 HELLER NOTGELD der GEMEINDE HAUSMENING GILTIG BIS 31. DEZ. 1920. NACHAHMUNG wird gesetzl. bestraft. DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER VIZEBÜRGERM. DER GEMEINDERAT. Entwurf: Robert Schönbrunner. Druck von F. Kielar, Amstetten. |
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| Signature(s) | Bürgermeister Joh. Schörlum; Vizebürgermeister Jahn; Gemeinderat Josef Bartel |
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Hausmening is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small-denomination coinage almost entirely absent from circulation. Thousands of parishes and towns printed their own emergency scrip between 1919 and 1922, and the quality varied enormously — F. Kielar was a regional Amstetten printer, not a specialist security press, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village issue of this scale.
Three signatories authenticated each note: the mayor, deputy mayor, and a single council member. That level of bureaucratic formality on a piece of emergency paper says something about how seriously these communities took the legal legitimacy of what they were doing.