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50 Heller St. Agatha
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Agatha b. W. (Municipality of Sankt Agatha bei Wels) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in solid teal-green ink and centres on a landscape vignette enclosed within an elaborate cartouche of scrollwork, pilasters, and ornamental finials, rendered in a fine illustrative style. The vignette presents a view of the Fadinger-Hof farmstead set against a mountain backdrop, identified by a label at lower left. Crossed implements appear to the left of the cartouche as a symbolic decorative device. |
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| Signature(s) | Altenhofer |
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St. Agatha bei Wels is a small rural parish in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to emergency paper in 1920 as the post-war small coin shortage made everyday commerce genuinely unworkable. These Gemeinde-issued Heller notes — Notgeld in the strictest sense — were authorized locally, printed in tiny quantities, and intended only for circulation within the issuing community. The single signature of Altenhofer almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official rather than a banking authority.
Survival rates for village-level Austrian Notgeld vary sharply; notes from parishes this small were often redeemed quickly once the coin supply normalized, leaving very few in collector hands today.