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50 Heller Sonnberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sonnberg (Municipality of Sonnberg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE SONNBERG. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die uralte Sage besagt von dem Stein, Daß der Teufel muß hier das Silber viel ein. Nun denke mit klarem Menschensinn: Wo kam denn all das Silber hin? | Die Gemeinde Sonnberg in Oberösterreich gibt infolge Kleingeldmangels Notgeldscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 30.000 K aus, welche bis 31. September 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst werden. | Der Bürgerm.-Stellv.: Josef Bachl. Der Bürgermeister: Johann Hemmelmayr. | Nachmachung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. | 50 |
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Sonnberg is a small rural commune in the Perg district of Upper Austria, and its decision to issue emergency money in 1920 reflects the chronic small-coin famine that persisted in Austria well after the First World War ended. The postwar disintegration of the Habsburg monetary system left provincial municipalities scrambling to fill gaps in everyday transactional currency — hence the flood of Notgeld from even the most obscure localities.
Signed by Josef Bachl and Johann Hemmelmayr, presumably the Bürgermeister and a council official. Two signatories was the conventional minimum for these issues to carry any local legal weight.