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50 Heller Lasberg
| Issuer | Marktkommune Lasberg (Market Community of Lasberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in teal-green ink on cream paper, the obverse carries a diamond-pattern border frame enclosing three central vignettes: on the left, a view of the local parish church with a distinctive round tower; on the right, a landscape vignette of a hilltop fortress or castle ruin; and at centre, the quartered municipal coat of arms of Lasberg surmounted by a coronet. The denomination '50' appears in the upper left and upper right corners, with the inscriptions 'Heller' rendered in Gothic script at lower left and lower right flanking the central heraldic device. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marktkommune Lasberg, Bezirk Freistadt in Oberösterreich, gibt auf Grund des Ausschußsitzungsbeschlusses vom 12. Mai 1920 Notgeld zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller im Gesamtwerte von 30.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Einlösung derselben mit ihren sämtlichen Besitzungen. | Die Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Jänner 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. | Lasberg, 12. Mai 1920. | Der Kassenführer: Franz Auer. | Der Vorsteher: Josef Prückl. | 50 | Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Lasberg is a small market town in the Mühlviertel district of Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities following the economic collapse at the end of the First World War. The central government could not supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, so thousands of local authorities — including minor market communes like Lasberg — were authorized to print their own emergency currency. These circulated hyperlocally, often accepted only within the issuing community's immediate radius.
The two signatories, Franz Auer and Josef Prückl, were almost certainly local municipal officials rather than banking professionals. Self-printed and self-signed community notes of this kind were produced in very short runs, which paradoxically makes survivors common among collectors today — hoarded rather than spent into destruction.