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50 Heller Mürzzuschlag
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mürzzuschlag (Market Town of Mürzzuschlag) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain pale pink note printed entirely in dark green ink, enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border. The word 'Gutschein' is set in large Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter type at centre top, followed by the legend 'der Marktgemeinde Mürzzuschlag' and the issue date 'Mürzzuschlag, am 30. Juni 1920'. Two facsimile signatures appear below, attributed respectively to the Finance Officer ('Der Finanzreferent') at left and the Mayor ('Der Bürgermeister') at right. A three-line demonetisation notice printed in small Fraktur type occupies the lower portion of the note, and the printer's imprint 'Buchdruckerei Mürzzuschlag' is centred at the very foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Mürzzuschlag Mürzzuschlag, am 30. Juni 1920 Der Finanzreferent: Der Bürgermeister: Durch den Erlaß des Staatsamtes für Finanzen vom 18. August 1920, Zl. 74642, betreffend das Verbot der Herausgabe von Kassenscheinen, hat dieser Schein seine Eigenschaft als Notgeld eingebüßt, dient nur Sammelzwecken u. wird nicht eingelöst. Buchdruckerei Mürzzuschlag |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was a direct consequence of the coin shortages that plagued the collapsing Habsburg economy from 1916 onward — small denominations vanished from circulation as metal was diverted to the war effort, and they simply never came back. By 1920, hundreds of Austrian municipalities were still printing their own emergency scrip, Mürzzuschlag among them. The Buchdruckerei Mürzzuschlag printing its own town's notes is about as local as production gets — engraver, printer, and issuer all within the same small Styrian industrial town.