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50 Heller Martinsberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Martinsberg (Municipality of Martinsberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 March 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in brown on cream paper, centred on an oval vignette of a panoramic townscape of Martinsberg with a prominent church tower, surrounding buildings and a mountain backdrop. The denomination '50' appears in corner medallions with 'Fünfzig' below, while shield cartouches bearing 'Heller' flank the lateral margins, and a wavy-line guilloche underprint runs beneath the town name 'MARTINSBERG' in bold display lettering across the upper register. Guarantee text and two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear at the foot, dated 1 July 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | MARTINSBERG 50 Heller Fünfzig Die Gemeinde Martinsberg haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen und löst dieselbe vom 1. bis 31. März 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Martinsberg, 1. Juli 1920 Der Bürgerm. Stellv.: Hohenegger Der Bürgermeister: |
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Martinsberg is a small parish municipality in Lower Austria's Waldviertel, and this 50 Heller emergency note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian communes between 1919 and 1921 to address the chronic small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The printer, Siedler of nearby Pöggstall, handled production for several surrounding villages during this period — a local trade printer stepping into a gap the central authorities couldn't fill.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian municipal series, though surviving examples from small Waldviertel communes are harder to locate than the more heavily printed urban issues.