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50 Heller Hüttau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hüttau (Municipality of Hüttau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 50 HELLER Gemeinde Hüttau H. Bergmüller Bgm. G.-R. |
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| Reverse lettering | HELLER 50 HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE HÜTTAU DIESE GUTSCHEINE WERDEN BIS 31. JÄNNER 1921 VON DER GEMEINDE KASSE IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINGELÖST. GESAMTAUFLAGE 20000 K G.R.B.v. 8.7.1920 R. KIESEL, SALZBURG. |
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Hüttau is a small market village in the Pongau district of Salzburg province, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria following the First World War. With the Habsburg monetary system collapsed and small coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply scarce — thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency between 1919 and 1922. R. Kiesel was a Salzburg commercial printer with no particular prestige in the field, which shows.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0401a places this among the earliest documented Hüttau issues.