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50 Heller Kirchberg bei Linz
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kirchberg bei Linz (Municipality of Kirchberg bei Linz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Gutschein d. Gemeinde Kirchberg bei Linz O.Ö. 50 heller x fünfzig x 1920 |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Ortsgemeinde Kirchberg bei Linz haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein bis 31. Dezemb. 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Kirchberg bei Linz, am 25.4.1920 Der Bürgermeister Jos. Trauenberger O deutsches Volk verzage nicht! Wirst wieder neu erstarken! Wenn eine andere Zeit anbricht Für Österreichs Gemarken. 50 Heller 50 KARL HUBER, URFAHR. |
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Austrian Notgeld at the 50 Heller denomination was the workhorse of the village emergency currency system — issued because the postwar coin shortage made small transactions genuinely impossible, not as a collector novelty. By 1920, however, the collector trade was already well aware of Notgeld, and many municipalities printed in excess of local need. Whether Kirchberg bei Linz overprinted for that market or kept production modest is not documented in the standard references.
Karl Huber in Urfahr was a regional printer serving numerous Upper Austrian communes during this period. The Bürgermeister signature of Josef Trauenberger gives the note its formal validity under Austrian emergency currency regulations.