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50 Heller Kärnten
| Issuer | Kärntner Landeskasse (Carinthian Provincial Treasury) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S108 |
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| Obverse lettering | Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Gutschein über Fünfzig Heller Kärntner Landeskasse Dieser Gutschein besitzt nur bis 31. Dezember 1920 Gültigkeit und wird im Monate Dezember 1920 bei der kärntnerischen Landeskassa in Klagenfurt in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Kärntner Landesrat St. Veit a. d. Glan, am 1. März 1920. Der Finanzreferent: Der Landeshauptmanns: |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Gutschein über Fünfzig Heller Kärntner Landeskasse Kärntner Landesrat |
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Issued in the chaotic months following Austria's post-war fragmentation, this Notgeld piece reflects Carinthia's specific political crisis: the province was simultaneously conducting a plebiscite against Yugoslav annexation while the central government in Vienna was too financially paralyzed to supply adequate small change. Local emergency currency filled the void. The Gutenberghaus Klagenfurt printing is entirely consistent — provincial notes of this type were produced locally by whatever press was available, with no pretense of central bank involvement.
Lemisch's signature is historically significant. As Landeshauptmann, he was the driving force behind Carinthia's armed resistance to Yugoslav occupation in 1919 and the subsequent October 1920 plebiscite that kept the region Austrian.