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50 Heller Mehrnbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Mehrnbach (Municipality of Mehrnbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Mehrnbach 50 Heller Kriegerdenkmal |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Neuhofer |
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Mehrnbach is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the Habsburg currency system in collapse after 1918 and the new Republic struggling to supply adequate small change, thousands of local authorities — including villages with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — printed their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0604-50 places this within the documented Austrian municipal series, signed by Franz Neuhofer, almost certainly the sitting Bürgermeister at the time of issue.