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50 Heller Ort im Innkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ort im Innkreis (Municipality of Ort im Innkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Violet-grey Notgeld voucher with a decorative ruled border enclosing a central vignette of the parish church and adjacent buildings of Ort im Innkreis set against a circular light underprint. The denomination '50' appears in bold at upper left and upper right flanking the town name 'ORT IM INNKREIS' with the abbreviations 'OB.' and 'ÖST.' below; the words 'HELLER GUTSCHEIN' are printed vertically on both sides. At the lower margin, a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears above the repeated underprint legend 'HELLER' flanking an oval cartouche bearing the inscription 'DER BÜRGERMEISTER:'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein ist unverzinslich und wird laut Beschluß des Gemeindeausschusses von der Gemeinde Ort im Innkreis in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzl. Bargeld eingelöst. Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird bestraft. M. Engel & Söhne, Wien, VII. |
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Ort im Innkreis is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept through Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the currency chaos following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the acute small-change shortage that plagued the successor states. Municipal and even village authorities issued their own emergency money out of practical necessity, not any formal monetary authority.
M. Engel & Söhne were a Viennese commercial printing house responsible for a significant volume of this provincial Notgeld. Their output was workmanlike rather than artistic — a contrast to the elaborate collector-oriented Notgeld being produced in Germany at the same time.