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50 Heller Innerschwandt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Innerschwandt (Municipality of Innerschwandt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Innerschwandt Die Gemeinde Innerschwandt gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 2. Juni 1920 Notgeld aus und haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Die Einlösung der Gutscheine wird seinerzeit verlautbart. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: M. Wendtner. |
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| Signature(s) | M. Wendtner |
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Innerschwandt is a tiny village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly small municipalities, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These hyperlocal issues were authorized under Austrian emergency provisions that briefly allowed communes to print fractional currency when federal coinage simply wasn't reaching rural communities.
The signature of M. Wendtner almost certainly belongs to the Bürgermeister at the time. Innerschwandt's issue is among the more obscure entries in the Jaksch catalogue — the village's population was small enough that original print runs were limited, and survival rates for these thin wartime papers are correspondingly low.