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50 Heller niederösterreich land
| Issuer | Land Niederösterreich (Federal State of Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Text-only reverse printed in brown on cream paper, headed 'Kassenschein des Landes Niederösterreich über fünfzig Heller', with three paragraphs of legal text in Gothic script authorizing the issue. Dated 'Wien, im Juli 1920', with three manuscript signatures below their respective titles and the printer's imprint at foot. |
| Reverse lettering | II. Auflage. Kassenschein des Landes Niederösterreich über fünfzig Heller Zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot gibt das Land Niederösterreich auf Grund des Landtagsbeschlusses vom 23. Juni 1920 Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von weiteren drei Millionen Kronen aus. Die Kassenscheine, die unverzinslich sind, werden in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 beim n.-ö. Landes-Obereinnehmeramte in Wien in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Das Land Niederösterreich haftet für die Einlösung der Kassenscheine mit seinem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Die Nachahmung der Kassenscheine wird gesetzlich bestraft. Wien, im Juli 1920. Der n.-ö. Landesrat. Landeshauptmstv. Landeshauptmann. Finanzreferent. Druckerei n.-ö. Landesbahnen. |
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Lower Austria was one of dozens of Austrian federal states and municipalities forced to issue small-denomination Notgeld after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left the new republic chronically short of small change. The printer here — Druckerei n.-ö. Landesbahnen, the printing works of the Lower Austrian Provincial Railways — was an industrial press, not a specialist banknote printer, which is exactly why these notes feel different in hand from contemporaneous Viennese issues.
The series was rendered obsolete within a few years by successive currency reforms, and most circulated hard before being discarded rather than redeemed.