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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Schönbühel an der Donau |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Hel- 50 -ler Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde Schönbühel a/d Donau DER BÜRGERMEISTER DIE GEMEINDE SCHÖNBÜHEL A/D DONAU ÜBERNIMMT DIE HAFTUNG, DIESEN GUTSCHEIN IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN UND HAT ZU DIESEM ZWECKE EINE BESONDERE DECKUNGS-RÜCKLAGE BEREIT Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES GUTSCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT 3. Auflage |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with no design elements, text, or ornamentation. |
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Schönbühel an der Donau is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities during and after the First World War. With the Austro-Hungarian monetary system collapsing and small coin effectively vanishing from circulation by 1917–1918, local authorities across Austria were legally permitted — then practically compelled — to issue their own emergency currency to keep commerce functional at the village level.
Printed by F. Seitenberg in Vienna, a firm that produced considerable quantities of provincial Notgeld during this period. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0970III places this firmly within the Lower Austrian municipal series.