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50 Heller Lembach im Mühlkreis, Red issue
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lembach im Mühlkreis (Municipality of Lembach im Mühlkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | LEMBACH IM MÜHLKREIS 50 HELLER FÜR DIE EINLÖSUNG DIESES GUTSCHEINES IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE INNERHALB DER BESTIMMTEN FRIST, DAS IST BIS ZU DEM ÖFFENTLICH VERLAUTBARTEN EINLÖSUNGSTERMINE HAFTET DIE GEMEINDE LEMBACH DURCH EINE EIGENE DECKUNGSRÜCKLAGE, DER BÜRGERMEISTER HOBERHUMER |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE LEMBACH IM MÜHLKREIS |
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Lembach im Mühlkreis is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — when the postwar coin shortage made everyday commerce nearly impossible. The red-ink designation distinguishes this issue within the Lembach series, which ran across multiple color variants to discourage substitution between denominations or issue rounds.
H. Bayer's involvement is worth noting: local Notgeld designers were often schoolteachers, printers, or amateur artists pressed into service, and the quality varied accordingly. The JPR reference places this firmly within the Jaksch/Pick Austrian Notgeld cataloguing system, where Lembach's issues are among the more thoroughly documented of the smaller Upper Austrian communes.