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50 Heller Kremsmünster (Marktgemeinde)
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kremsmünster (Market Town of Kremsmünster) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in brown on cream paper with an Art Nouveau guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A central vignette depicts a rampant bear leaning on a staff, set within a decorative cartouche flanked on either side by the denomination numerals '50' above the legend 'Fünfzig HELLER'. The issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde KREMSMÜNSTER' arches across the top, with an anti-counterfeiting warning at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde KREMSMÜNSTER 50 Fünfzig HELLER Die Nachahmung wird bestraft |
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Kremsmünster is a small market town in Upper Austria best known for its Benedictine abbey, and like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities, it issued its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These locally-printed emergency issues were a practical stop-gap, not a monetary experiment — small denominations in coins had effectively vanished from daily commerce by 1919–1920.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field almost certainly reflects a later cataloguing or database entry error; that date was the final day of Hitler's life and well outside any plausible Notgeld printing window for this series.