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50 Heller Schardenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schardenberg (Municipality of Schardenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on white paper, the reverse is enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border with an ornate scrollwork inner frame. The main text block, set in Fraktur typeface, presents the full legal text of the Notgeld issue, stating the municipality's liability and the redemption obligation at the communal treasury. The denomination numeral '50' appears in bold letterpress at lower left and lower right corners, with an anti-counterfeiting warning legend in a separate cartouche at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Schardenberg. Die Gemeinde Schardenberg, Bezirk Schärding, Oberösterreich, gibt laut Beschluß vom 2. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 40.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Schardenberg, am 9. Juni 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Matth. Maier. Die Nachmachung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 50 |
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Schardenberg is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, near the German border. Like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian communities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage following the economic collapse at the end of the First World War. The Austrian crown had been hemorrhaging value since 1914, and small denominations in coin had long since been hoarded or melted.
The single signature, Matth. Maier, almost certainly represents the municipal mayor or treasurer signing in an official capacity. Local accountability was the only backing these notes carried.