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50 Heller St. Florian
| Issuer | Markt Sankt Florian, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | St. Florian Fünfzig Heller 50 Diese Scheine, herausgegeben vom Markte St. Florian, sind giltig bis zum 31. Oktober 1920. – Nachahmung gesetzlich verboten. Der Marktvorstand |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same green tone, centres on an oval vignette of the Augustinian monastery of St. Florian with its Baroque twin-towered façade set against a wooded hillside, the town spread in the foreground. To the left of the oval stands a full-length figure of St. Florian in armour carrying a banner and a water vessel. Denomination numerals '50' are placed in circles at upper left and upper right, with the Gothic-script heading 'Haller Notgeld' across the top; the inscription '3. Auflage.' appears at upper left, and 'Markt St. Florian, O.Ost.' with the year '1920' runs along the lower margin. |
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Sankt Florian, a market town in Upper Austria, issued this 50 Heller note as part of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left local governments scrambling to fill a coin shortage that the new Republic of Austria was in no position to address quickly — small denominations simply weren't being minted fast enough for everyday transactions.
Most Austrian Notgeld of this period was printed locally on whatever paper stock was available, which accounts for the wide variation in quality across surviving examples from different towns.