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50 Heller Reichersberg
| Issuer | Municipality of Reichersberg am Inn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a photographic-style vignette printed in purple, presenting a panoramic view of the Augustinian monastery of Reichersberg am Inn set on a hillside, with the monastery church tower and long monastic buildings visible above the rooftops of the town below. A caption in italic script at the lower left identifies the scene as 'Reichersberg am Inn, O.-Ö.' A faint serial number overprint is visible across the centre of the image. |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Oetkl |
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Reichersberg am Inn is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal authorities across the country scrambling to issue their own emergency Heller denominations — Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving at all.
The signatory, Karl Oetkl, was almost certainly a local official rather than a banking functionary. Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period was authorized locally and carried whatever administrative signatures the issuing body could produce.