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50 Heller Lohnsburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lohnsburg (Municipality of Lohnsburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green on buff paper Notgeld voucher printed in letterpress, with the issuer legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Lohnsburg' set in Gothic script within a decorative header band. At centre-left, a circular laurel-wreath vignette encloses a view of Lohnsburg church with surrounding trees, while a second vignette at lower-left presents a manor house or administrative building in a landscape setting; the bold denomination numeral '50' and the word 'Heller' in large Gothic lettering appear at upper-left. The legal guarantee and validity clause are inscribed in cursive German script at right, with two manuscript signature lines for the Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter and the Bürgermeister ruled at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Die Gemeinde Lohnsburg gibt Gutscheine bis zum Gesamtbetrage von 20.000 Kr aus (G.A.B. v. 18/4.1920.) Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31/12.1920 in gesetzl. Bargelde eingelöst. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of the 1920 wave — Lohnsburg is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar parishes it issued small-denomination emergency currency when postwar coin shortages made everyday transactions impractical. The Heller, already being phased out of relevance by inflation, was precisely the denomination most affected by hoarding and metal scarcity in 1919–1920.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian local issue corpus, but Lohnsburg's output was small enough that surviving examples turn up infrequently outside regional Austrian collections.