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50 Heller Scharten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scharten (Municipality of Scharten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Druckerei V. Langhammer, Linz |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Scharten |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Scharten. Die Gemeinde Scharten haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 2. Mai 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: Johann Huemer. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Druck V. Langhammer, Linz |
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Scharten is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities unable to obtain enough small-denomination coinage to conduct ordinary daily commerce. Municipalities, businesses, and even private associations printed their own emergency fractional currency, often in quite short runs. Langhammer in Linz was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly the kind of house that handled these small municipal contracts.
Bürgermeister Johann Huemer's signature gives it local administrative authority — legally thin, but sufficient for village-level acceptance.