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50 Heller Manglburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Manglburg (Municipality of Manglburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0574-50 |
| Obverse description | The obverse carries a letterpress-printed landscape vignette at left, showing a rural view of Manglburg with buildings and trees, captioned 'Manglburg' below. The heading 'Kassenschein' appears in Gothic blackletter type at top, with 'Gemeinde Manglburg' and the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' in large script below. A text block at right details redemption conditions, followed by a facsimile mayoral signature, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in the lower corners alongside the date '1920' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is framed by an ornate letterpress border of stylised floral and geometric motifs, with oval cartouches at upper left and upper right inscribed 'Gemeinde Manglburg' and 'Ober-Österreich' respectively. The central text panel, set in Gothic script, records the council resolution of 24 April 1920 authorising the issue of vouchers totalling 27,000 Kronen to alleviate the small-change shortage, redeemable four weeks after announcement of the redemption date in legal tender. |
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Manglburg is a small settlement in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller emergency note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued across Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922 when small coin virtually disappeared from circulation. The central government couldn't produce enough coinage to meet demand in the aftermath of the empire's collapse, so thousands of local authorities filled the gap themselves.
The Jaksch reference series catalogues these Upper Austrian issues methodically, but many remain poorly documented in terms of surviving quantities. Small-community issues like Manglburg typically had short print runs and saw genuine transactional use — which is why undamaged examples are harder to source than their urban counterparts.