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50 Heller Oed
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Oed (Market Community of Oed) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and blue on cream paper with a wavy outer border and a decorative foliate frame. The central vignette presents a rural scene of the old market town of Oed, with a horse-drawn coach in the left foreground passing through a wooded landscape before a church tower; a ribbon scroll at the base bears the inscription 'Alt-Markt Oed'. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' in Gothic script flanks a large numeral '5' at the top, and the designer and printer credits appear in small text at the lower left and lower right respectively. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Gruber (Vicebürgermeister) and Heinrich Brunnbauer (Bürgermeister) and Ferd. Krippel (Gemeinderat) |
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This is a Notgeld issue — emergency municipal currency printed during Austria's severe post-war coin shortage. Thousands of Austrian market towns issued their own Heller denominations in this period, but Oed's example is notable for having three signatories, including both the Bürgermeister and Vicebürgermeister, which was not universal practice and reflects a deliberate effort at local administrative legitimacy. F. Kielar operated out of nearby Amstetten, making this entirely a Lower Austrian production. Oskar Reittinger's design credit is the one detail that lifts it above the purely functional — his involvement suggests this was not the cheapest print option available to the Gemeinderat.