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50 Heller Schönau im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schönau im Mühlkreis (Municipality of Schönau im Mühlkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-blue on cream paper, the obverse presents a panoramic vignette of the village of Schönau im Mühlkreis, showing the church steeple and surrounding farmsteads set against a rolling hillside landscape with clouds above. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner within decorative Art Nouveau cartouches, flanked by ornate vertical pilasters with stylized foliate motifs. The issuer's name 'Gemeinde Schönau i.M.' is inscribed in a curved banner at the top, with 'Fünfzig Heller' in a scroll at the base. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same violet-blue ink, carries a decorative text panel within a ruled frame with radiating line underprint. A four-line rhyming verse in German script occupies a scroll at the top, flanked by oak leaf sprigs. Below, the main text body sets out the legal issue authorization by the Gemeindebeschluss of 6 June 1920, the total issue amount of 50,000 Kronen, the redemption obligation at the Gemeindekasse by 31 December 1920, and the signature of the Bürgermeister. An anti-counterfeiting warning appears in a ruled panel at the foot. |
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Schönau im Mühlkreis is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller notgeld belongs to the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortages that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden issued their own small-denomination paper, most valid only within the issuing municipality and redeemable for a limited window before being voided.
The JPR0966b suffix indicates this is the second catalogued variety within the Schönau series, distinguished from the 'a' type by a difference in printing detail or color — collectors should verify against the Jaksc reference before attributing.