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50 Heller St. Agatha
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Agatha (Municipality of St. Agatha bei Waizenkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper and framed by a fine dotted border. The upper left quadrant bears a rectangular text panel containing a seven-line patriotic verse in German blackletter script, flanked to its right by a small rosette ornament and the large bold denomination numeral '50' above the word 'Heller' in a separate ruled box. Below the upper panel, the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Agatha b. W.' is set in prominent Gothic lettering, followed by a legal text block stating the municipality's obligation to redeem the notes at the community cashier by 31 December 1920, the issuance date of 11 July 1920, and the signature line of Bürgermeister Georg Altenhofer, with a forgery warning in bold type at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper and composed entirely in an ornamental Art Nouveau woodcut style. A central oval vignette presents a landscape view of the Fadingerweiher pond with tall slender trees and clouds reflected in the water. The vignette is flanked on each side by decorative shield-shaped cartouches bearing stacked '50' numerals, set against scrollwork and hatched ornamental panels. The upper border carries a rounded-rectangle title panel inscribed 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Agatha', and a lower caption panel reads 'Fadingerweiher. Stätte d. Alten Fadingerhofes', with spiral and rosette corner ornaments completing the decorative frame. |
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St. Agatha bei Waizenkirchen is a small rural parish in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues printed between 1919 and 1921 to address the acute small-coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal and community authorities across Austria filled the vacuum themselves, commissioning local printers to produce emergency fractional currency backed by nothing more than local goodwill.
Georg Altenhofer's signature as issuing authority places accountability at the municipal level — typical for parish-scale Notgeld, where the Bürgermeister or a senior council member signed off directly.