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50 Heller Neumarkt a. d. Ybbs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Neumarkt an der Ybbs (Market Municipality of Neumarkt an der Ybbs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on light green underprint. The face carries the issuer's name in a top banner within a decorative border frame with scrollwork corners and the denomination numeral '50' in each corner. The central text panel, set in ornate Fraktur script, reads 'Gutschein für Fünfzig Hellere', followed by a redemption clause in German stating validity until 21 December 1920, place and date of issue, and the printed title 'Der Bürgermeister' above a manuscript signature, with a second line for the managing municipal councillors and three further manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on light green underprint. The upper portion carries a header panel inscribed 'Marktgemeinde Neumarkt an der Ybbs' flanked by the denomination numeral '50' in square corner cartouches. The central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Neumarkt an der Ybbs with a prominent church steeple, rolling hills, and a foreground of conifers and fields. The entire composition is enclosed by a decorative foliate border, and the printer's imprint 'Grof Frietzel Steyr' appears below the lower frame. |
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Neumarkt an der Ybbs was one of hundreds of Austrian market towns that issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The municipal series from this Lower Austrian community was printed by Grof Frietzel in Steyr — a regional press rather than one of the larger Viennese houses, which accounts for the relatively modest production quality common to the JPR0663 series.
The 1920 date places this in the second wave of Austrian local emergency currency, issued after the initial postwar chaos had already demonstrated that the central government could not reliably supply small-denomination coinage.