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50 Heller Hofkirchen im Traunkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hofkirchen im Traunkreis (Municipality of Hofkirchen im Traunkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark violet on plain paper and is entirely typeset in Gothic blackletter script within a border of repeating circular ornaments. A multi-line authorisation text occupies the upper portion, referencing the municipal council resolution of 23 May 1920 and specifying the total notgeld issue of 20,000 Kronen in 50-, 20-, and 10-Heller denominations. The validity period, place and date, the Bürgermeister's name, and two council members' names and titles are set out below, with the denomination numeral '50' printed in large type at each lower corner. The anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft' appears at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Hiesmair (Bürgermeister), Franz Pick (1. G.-R.) and Josef Edlmayr (2. G.-R.) |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from a simple postwar crisis: the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small denominations almost entirely absent from circulation by 1919–1920, forcing thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Hofkirchen im Traunkreis, a small Upper Austrian market commune, issued this 50 Heller under the authority of Bürgermeister Karl Hiesmair alongside two Gemeinderäte — the countersignatures of local councillors being a legal requirement for municipal validity rather than ceremony.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this firmly within the documented Austrian local Notgeld corpus, but small Upper Austrian communes at this tier produced very limited runs, and survival rates were poor once the national currency stabilized and redemption windows closed.