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50 Heller Scheibbs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Scheibbs (Market Town of Scheibbs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red letterpress on light paper, the obverse bears the title 'Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Scheibbs' in Gothic blackletter script across the upper margin, flanked by two circular guilloche rosettes each inscribed '50 HELLER'. A central allegorical vignette of a female figure amid foliate ornamentation occupies the middle field. Below, a three-line guarantee clause dated 'Scheibbs, 15. Februar 1920' appears in Gothic script, accompanied by three manuscript signatures beneath the respective titles 'der Vizebürgermeister', 'der Bürgermeister', and 'der Gemeinderat'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Scheibbs gibt Gutscheine bis zu 25.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben werden bis 15. Juli 1920 von der Kasse der Marktgemeinde Scheibbs in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. |
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Scheibbs is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving towns to print their own stopgap currency. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities did the same, but the sheer volume of locally printed issues means provenance and print quality vary enormously even within a single community's series.
Printed locally rather than by one of the major Viennese or German specialist printers, production values on Scheibbs issues tend toward the modest end of the spectrum.