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50 Heller Poysdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Poysdorf (Market Town of Poysdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper printed in black Gothic script throughout, with no vignette or underprint. The upper portion carries a four-line rhyming verse referencing Poysdorf wine and the local shortage of small change. Below, a formal text paragraph states the conditions of issue: non-interest-bearing Kassenscheine totalling 100,000 Kronen accepted in payment by the Gemeinde Poysdorf until 31 December 1920 and redeemable in legal tender between 16 and 31 December 1920. A bold anti-counterfeiting warning and the edition note Zweite Auflage (second issue) appear at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | In Poysdorf liegt manch' Tropfen Wein, Doch mangelt es am Gelde klein; Drum schicken wir dies Blättchen aus, Aus vielen wird ein Gläschen draus. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Poysdorf unverzinsliche Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 100.000 Kronen aus. Sie werden von der Gemeinde Poysdorf bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Zweite Auflage. |
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Poysdorf is a small wine-producing market town in Lower Austria, and its 1920 Heller notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of emergency municipal currency that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921. The central government's inability to supply adequate small change — a direct consequence of postwar monetary collapse and copper shortages — forced thousands of Gemeinden to print their own. Poysdorf was one of hundreds doing exactly that.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksc reference indicates a recognized variety within the series, most likely a color or paper variant rather than a reissue.