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50 Heller Marsbach
| Issuer | Marsbach, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is enclosed within a decorative blue frame with scalloped edges, centering a landscape vignette in woodcut or line-engraving style. The scene presents a panoramic aerial view of the Danube meander near Marsbach, with forested hillsides flanking the river as it loops through the valley floor. The denomination numeral "50" is placed in each upper corner, while the curved inscription "Donauschglinge" appears at the base of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Donauschglinge |
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Marsbach is a small market commune in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel district, and its 50 Heller Notgeld issue belongs to the dense wave of Austrian municipal emergency money produced in the immediate postwar period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local authorities scrambling to cover small-denomination shortages. Hundreds of Austrian communes issued their own paper in 1920, most in limited runs for purely local use.
The watermark security feature is worth noting — many Mühlviertel Notgeld issues at this scale relied on plain stock, so its presence here suggests the commune sourced from a more capable regional printer.