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50 Heller Oberschlierbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oberschlierbach (Municipality of Oberschlierbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is occupied by a woodcut-style vignette of a rural Alpine scene with a large haystack or haycap in the centre foreground, a farmstead to the left, and a forested mountain backdrop. Two smaller vignettes in blue underprint flank the main scene within ornate foliate cartouches, one depicting a chapel and the other a sawmill or rural structure. The denomination numeral '50' in large blue digits occupies the lower centre, flanked by the inscription 'Heller' in Gothic blackletter script on either side, with the issuing authority text below in two lines. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Oberschlierbach haftet laut G.M.S.B. vom 4.5.1920 für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein bis 31.Dez. 1920 in gesetzlichem Der Mensch ohne Geld ist arm in der Welt. S Notgeld in der Hand, koa Brod allerweit eihand. Bargelde einzulösen. Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines ist strafbar. Einlösung zu mittlmr. Johann Swarelyn |
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Oberschlierbach is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 50 Heller notgeld dates from the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar period — the old imperial coinage had collapsed with the Habsburg state, and replacement coins were slow to materialize under the new republic. Hundreds of Austrian communes printed their own emergency paper in 1920, most through local jobbing printers.
Karl Huber of Urfahr handled several such commissions from the region. Urfahr itself was then still an independent town on the north bank of the Danube, not yet absorbed into Linz — that merger came in 1919, which dates the printer's address precisely.