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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 lettering | Vom Feindesjoch und Tyrancy Und seiner großen Schinderei Mach uns, o lieber Herrgott, frei; Weil es dann gilt die Seel und Guat, So gilt's auch unser Leib und Bluat; Gott geb uns einen Heldenmuath! Es muaß seyn! Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Agatha b. W. Die Gemeinde St. Agatha bei Waizenkirchen in Oberösterreich gibt laut Beschluß vom 11. Juli 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 50.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. St. Agatha, am 11. Juli 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Georg Altenhofer. Die Nachmachung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Signature(s) | Georg Altenhofer |
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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.