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50 Heller Kallham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kallham (Municipality of Kallham) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a letterpress-printed view of a rural settlement with buildings set against a hillside landscape, framed within a plain rectangular border. Bold geometric guilloche underprint panels in red and white fill the left and right lateral margins, each bearing the denomination numeral '50' at the corners. The upper legend identifies the note as a municipal voucher, with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature of Weidenholzer and the redemption text appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black on plain paper stock and consists of a typeset text block enclosed within a simple decorative border of small ornamental motifs at the corners and along the edges. The text, set in a formal Gothic-influenced typeface, provides the full legal conditions of issue, stating that the Gemeinde Kallham issued 30,000 Kronen worth of these non-interest-bearing cash vouchers to alleviate small-change shortages, redeemable in legal tender between 1 and 31 December 1920. A final line warns that counterfeiting is punishable by law. |
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Kallham is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria from roughly 1920 onward. These emergency issues were a local administrative decision, not a central banking one — the commune effectively printed its own small change because none was available through normal channels.
The JPR prefix in the Jaksch reference system designates Austrian rural municipal issues, a category notorious for short print runs and poor archival survival. The 50 Heller denomination was the workhorse of Austrian communal Notgeld.