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50 Heller Molln
| Issuer | Gemeinde Molln (Municipality of Molln) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Molln gültig bis 31. Aug. 1920 Nachahmung strafbar. |
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| Reverse lettering | um den Kleingeldmangel zu beheben Alle Gemeinden geben Notgeld aus Gemeinde Mölln 1920 Wir aber sagen es euch heraus Gelöst der Notlage wie bringen |
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Molln is a small market town in Upper Austria's Steyrtal, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities after the First World War, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. The 50 Heller denomination sat at the practical centre of everyday transactions, the kind of note passed across a counter for bread or postage.
The print date of 30 April 1945 in this catalog entry almost certainly reflects a later administrative recording date rather than an original 1920 press run — the Heller was abolished in 1924, making a 1945 printing physically impossible.