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50 Heller Schönau an der Triesting
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schönau an der Triesting (Municipality of Schönau an der Triesting) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Schönau a/d Triesting 50 HELLER DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BIS AUF ÖFFENTLICHE BEKANNTMACHUNG IN SCHÖNAU EINGELÖST NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT SCHÖNAU 1. JUNI 1920 – BÜRGERMEISTER Robert Hauser |
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| Reverse lettering | Ein schönes Stück Heimat Ist unser klein Ort. Es bezeugen dies Träumer In Liedern und Wort. Ihr Liebhabersammler Bewahrt's wie 'nen Schatz, Und reiht unser Notgeld An den all'ersten Platz. Otto Bersch. |
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Schönau an der Triesting is a small municipality in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Notgeld issues produced by Austrian towns and villages between 1919 and 1921 to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The newly established Austrian republic had no mechanism to flood the provinces with coin, and local authorities — including obscure rural Gemeinden like this one — simply printed their own emergency fractional currency. Robert Hauser's signature as issuing authority is the only administrative trace most of these villages left on the historical record.