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50 Heller Ostermiething 1920
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ostermiething (Municipality of Ostermiething) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld issue printed entirely in red ink, with a simple rectangular border incorporating stylised scroll ornaments at each corner. The text is arranged in stacked letterpress lines reading NOTGELD / DER GEMEINDE / OSTERMIETHING, with the denomination numeral 50 set in large bold type flanked on either side by the word HELLER; the word NOTGELD is repeated at the foot of the bordered panel. Below the border, a validity line reads: 4. Ausgabe. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE OSTERMIETHING HELLER 50 HELLER NOTGELD 4. Ausgabe. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 |
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Ostermiething is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg Empire left the new republic chronically short of small change. Local authorities — down to individual villages — printed their own emergency scrip between roughly 1919 and 1922 to fill the void left by hoarded or withdrawn coinage.
Municipal issues from settlements this size were typically produced in very limited runs, often by regional printers with no specialist banknote experience. Survival rates vary sharply; some were redeemed and pulped, others kept as curiosities almost immediately upon issue.