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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Pottendorf (Market Town of Pottendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | HEL 50 LER Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde Pottendorf Die Gemeinde Pottendorf übernimmt die Haftung, diesen Gutschein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat zu diesem Zwecke eine besondere Bedeckungs-Rücklage bereit. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird bestraft! |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting plain cream-toned paper with no design, text, or ornamental elements. |
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Pottendorf's 50 Heller notgeld of 1920 belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money issued after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without adequate coin for everyday transactions. The Marktgemeinde — a market town with a long textile manufacturing history, its spinning mills dating to the late eighteenth century — was hardly alone in resorting to locally printed scrip, but the sheer volume of similar issues from Lower Austria makes distinguishing genuine circulation pieces from the printer's remainder stocks a persistent problem with this series.