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50 Heller Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Stadt-Gemeinde Klagenfurt (City Municipality of Klagenfurt) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured notgeld note with black letterpress text on a light blue guilloche underprint. The large bold denomination numeral '50' occupies the left field, with the word 'Heller' set in Gothic script to its right; a central vignette shows a stylised architectural structure flanked by heraldic lions. The main body carries a redemption text in German Gothic typeface, dated Klagenfurt, 25 September 1919, with a vertical side panel reading 'Nur gültig bis 31. März 1920' and the facsimile signatures of the deputy mayor and mayor printed at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely covered by a dense, all-over blue-grey guilloche pattern of interlocking curvilinear elements on a white paper ground, with no additional text or vignette. |
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This note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money — Notgeld — issued after the collapse of the Habsburg state left local authorities scrambling to plug a crippling shortage of small change. The central government in Vienna simply could not supply enough low-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand, and Klagenfurt, like hundreds of other towns, printed its own.
Klagenfurt's position made 1919 particularly fraught: the province of Carinthia was simultaneously fighting a guerrilla war against advancing Yugoslav forces and preparing for the 1920 plebiscite that would determine whether it remained Austrian at all.