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50 Heller Seewalchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Seewalchen am Attersee (Municipality of Seewalchen am Attersee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER Notgeld der Gemeinde Seewalchen am Attersee d. Oe. Auf Grund des Gemeindeausschussbeschlusses vom 8.V.1920 werden zur Linderung der Kleinmünzennot Wertscheine im Gesamtbetrage von K 100,000 ausgegeben, welche vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe der Gültigkeitsdauer eingelöst werden. Der Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Der Bürgermeister: Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. SERIE III AUFLAGE II NORBERTUS-DRUCKEREI WIEN III. ATELIER MATEJKO-VERTES WIEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green tones and presents a large oval vignette of the Attersee lakefront, with the village of Seewalchen visible across the calm water — church steeple, houses, and tree-lined shore rendered in fine letterpress line work with reflected imagery in the lake. A sailboat under full sail occupies the right foreground. The oval is surrounded by a decorative border of stylised floral and foliate motifs in dark blue, and a circular cartouche at the bottom centre bears the numeral '50' within a wreath. |
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Seewalchen am Attersee is a small lakeside village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920 it was forced to print its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — because the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system had created a near-total shortage of coins. The 50 Heller denomination was among the most commonly needed for everyday transactions, and local governments filled the gap themselves rather than wait for Vienna to act.
The Norbertus-Druckerei was a Viennese ecclesiastical press, an unusual choice for civil currency work. Atelier Matejko-Vertes handled the artistic design side — Marcel Vertès, then early in his career, contributed to numerous Austrian Notgeld commissions around this period.