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50 Heller Sankt Aegidi
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Aegidi (Municipality of Sankt Aegidi) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse with a simple single-rule rectangular border. Text is set entirely in letterpress typography, comprising a two-line dedicatory verse in Gothic script at the top, followed by the municipality's liability declaration in Roman type, the place and date of issue in bold, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Der Gutschein sei in harter Zeit Des deutschen Volkes Not geweiht! M. Die Gemeinde St. Aegidi haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. St. Aegidi, im Juni 1920. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Sankt Aegidi is a small Upper Austrian municipality that issued this Heller note as part of the vast Notgeld wave that swept German-speaking Europe after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system created a severe coin shortage, and thousands of local authorities — towns, parishes, even individual businesses — were left to print their own small-denomination scrip to keep daily commerce moving. Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie in Vienna was among the busier commercial printers servicing this demand, producing notes for municipalities far too small to have ever contemplated issuing currency under ordinary circumstances.
The Mayr design credit is relatively uncommon for rural Notgeld of this type, where most issuers simply accepted whatever stock layout the printer offered.