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50 Heller Landfriedstetten Blue issue
| Issuer | Municipality of Landfriedstetten |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A typeset Austrian Notgeld issue of the municipality of Landfriedstetten, printed in blue on plain paper stock with visible fiber inclusions. The face carries the denomination '50 Heller' alongside the issuing authority's name and relevant municipal text, rendered in a straightforward letterpress composition characteristic of small Austrian emergency currency of the early 1920s. The overall layout is unadorned, relying on printed text and numeral cartouches rather than vignette or guilloche ornamentation. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this Notgeld note presents a plain, unprinted paper surface with no typeset text, vignette, or ornamental elements, consistent with the economical production methods employed for small-denomination Austrian municipal emergency currency of this period. The cream-toned paper stock with natural fiber inclusions is left blank, serving solely as a backing to the printed obverse. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this period is abundant, but municipal issues from small Württemberg-adjacent communities in the former Habsburg borderlands are considerably less documented. Landfriedstetten — a village rather than a town in any administrative sense — issued these 50 Heller notes under the Notgeld provisions that allowed local authorities to paper over the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well into the early 1920s, long after the wartime emergency that originally prompted such issues had ended.
The "blue issue" designation distinguishes this from at least one other color variant in the JPR0499 series, suggesting the municipality printed in multiple runs — unusual for a settlement of this size.