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50 Heller Kematen an der Krems
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung Kematen a.d. Krems (Municipality of Kematen an der Krems) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is occupied by a woodcut-style vignette of a village church with a pointed steeple set amid rolling hills and trees, rendered in dark ink on a lilac-toned ground. To the right, Gothic script text states the validity date and issuing authority. The denomination '50 HELLER' appears in a box at lower left, below which the mayor's manuscript signature is inscribed. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis Dezember 1920 / Nachahmung strafbar / Gemeinde-Vorstg. Kematen a.d.K. / Der Bürgermeister: / 50 HELLER |
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Kematen an der Krems is a small Upper Austrian municipality that issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918. The 50 Heller denomination places this firmly in the everyday transactional range — bus fares, bread, small purchases — where the disappearance of bronze and nickel coinage hit hardest.
Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period was typically printed in very limited runs for purely local use, and most pieces saw heavy handling before being withdrawn once coin supplies stabilized in the early 1920s.