Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Heller Schönberg
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Schönberg |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN über fünfzig Heller wofür die Ortsgemeinde Schönberg fünfzig Heller in gesetzlichem Bargelde bis 31. Dezember 1920 ersetzt. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Ortsvorsteher: Johann Hennerbichler. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows the plain pink paper stock, with the obverse letterpress impression visible as a faint show-through. A lightly impressed rectangular border rule is discernible around the perimeter, consistent with the note having been printed on a single side only. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Schönberg's 50 Heller note is a Notgeld issue, one of the thousands of emergency municipal notes produced across Austria between 1920 and 1921 when small coin effectively vanished from circulation. The federal government tolerated rather than authorized these issues, and many Gemeinden — Schönberg among them — moved quickly to fill the gap with locally printed paper.
Johann Hennerbichler's signature as issuing authority ties this to a specific municipal administration, not a bank. Redemption was theoretically guaranteed by the commune, though in practice many holders simply kept them as souvenirs once the acute shortage passed.