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50 Heller Heidenreichstein
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Heidenreichstein (Market Town of Heidenreichstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on a pale grey-green paper stock, centred on a view of Burg Heidenreichstein castle with flanking trees rendered in fine line work. Denomination roundels inscribed '50 HELLER' appear at left and right within the inner frame, with the legend 'KASSEN SCHEIN' arching across the top of the vignette. The issuer name 'Marktgemeinde Heidenreichstein' is typeset in bold Gothic script along the lower margin outside the vignette border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER KASSEN SCHEIN BURG HEIDENREICHSTEIN Marktgemeinde Heidenreichstein. |
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Heidenreichstein is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War — a period when chronic coin shortages forced even minor local governments to print their own fractional currency. The Marktgemeinde had no printing infrastructure of its own; these issues were typically contracted to regional printers and authorized by whatever local officials could provide a quorum of signatures.
Three signatories appear here: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a single Gemeinderat — the minimum credible show of civic authority for a note that would circulate only within walking distance of the town hall.