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50 Heller Maria Laach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in purple-violet on cream paper and centres on a detailed vignette of an ornate Baroque church altar with a radiant Madonna figure in the niche, flanked by candelabras, religious statuary, and decorative architectural elements. The denomination numeral '50' appears on ribbon banners at upper left and upper right beneath the bold Fraktur inscription 'Gutschein' at top centre. The lower panel contains a rectangular text cartouche with the issuer name 'Gemeinde Maria Laach a. Jauerling' and three manuscript signatures above their respective titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gleich tausend andern Kassenscheinen Durchflattre ich das Land und bring Dir, liebe Sammlerseele, einen Luftigen Gruß vom Jauerling! H.A. 2. Serie. Jauerlinger Notgeld der Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling über 50 Heller. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösefrist 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei persönlicher Vorweisung an der Gemeindekasse. |
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Maria Laach am Jauerling is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage. The economic disruption following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy had drained circulating coin from everyday commerce, and local governments filled the gap themselves. This 50 Heller note is part of that wave.
The JPR0584b designation places it in Jaksch's Austrian Notgeld catalog. The "b" variant typically indicates a printing or paper distinction within the same municipal issue — worth checking against the "a" if building a matched set.