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50 Heller Sankt Ulrich
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Ulrich (Municipality of Sankt Ulrich, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ST. ULRICH. FÜNFZIG 50 HELLER DIE GEMEINDE ST. ULRICH HAFTET FÜR DIE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GESAMTEN GEMEINDE-VERMÖGEN. DER BÜRGERMEISTER DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZL. BESTRAFT. Emil Prietzel, Steyr |
| Reverse description | Printed in violet on cream paper, the reverse centres on a circular vignette containing a panoramic townscape of Sankt Ulrich with a church steeple rising above wooded hills and a river in the foreground, all enclosed within a plain oval frame set against a decorative rectangular panel with ornamental corner blocks. The numeral '50' appears in bold type at left and right centre, with the denomination 'HEL-LER' split across two lines in each lower corner. The validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31.Dezemb 1920.' is repeated in the upper left and upper right panels. |
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Sankt Ulrich is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War left the country's currency system in chaos. The issuing authority had no banking infrastructure — the note exists simply because small change had effectively vanished from circulation by 1920, hoarded or melted down, and local commerce needed something to function on.
Emil Prietzel operated a printing business in the nearby industrial town of Steyr and produced Notgeld for several Upper Austrian communities during this period. His output for small communes like Sankt Ulrich was modest in run size and rarely survived in quantity.