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50 Heller Lambach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lambach (Market Town of Lambach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same dark rose-red, centres on a panoramic townscape vignette of Lambach dated 1659, surmounted by the place name 'LAMBACH' in ornate lettering. The denomination '50 HELLER' is set in bold type to the left and right of the vignette against a foliate decorative underprint. Below, multi-line Gothic script records the council resolution of 30 March 1920 authorising the issue, followed by three facsimile signature lines for the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister. |
| Reverse lettering | Lambach 1659 50 HELLER Die Marktgemeinde Lambach gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses v. 30.3.1920 Gutscheine aus u. haftet für die Verbindlichkeit zur Einlösung derselben mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Der Bürgermeister: Der 1. Vizebürgermeister: Der 2. Vizebürgermeister: |
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Lambach is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded local economies between 1919 and 1922 when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal and commercial issuers filling the gap themselves — legally, if tenuously.
The JPR prefix in the Jaksc catalog distinguishes these regional Austrian emergency issues from the broader Pick numbering. Lambach's series was printed locally, which typically meant a village printer working with whatever stock was available.