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50 Heller St. Georgen am Walde
| Issuer | Sankt Georgen am Walde, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 108 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three pictorial vignettes set against a stippled stone-pattern underprint. The left vignette presents a view of the parish church with its distinctive spire amid trees; the central oval vignette, surmounted by the legend 'ST. GEORG', contains an equestrian scene of Saint George slaying the dragon; the right vignette shows a townscape of local buildings, signed 'Rud. Reiser' at lower right. Denomination numerals '50' appear in octagonal cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners, with a shield-shaped panel at centre bottom bearing the text 'GUTSCHEIN / ST. GEORGEN / am / WALD'. A right-hand side panel carries the validity and authorisation text together with two facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a light blue-grey tint with a centrally placed ornamental vignette showing a heraldic shield or arms of Sankt Georgen am Walde, surrounded by a decorative frame with scrollwork borders. The overall design is plain with minimal additional ornamentation, relying on the central armorial motif for its principal decorative element. |
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Sankt Georgen am Walde is a small Upper Austrian municipality that issued this note during the Notgeld wave of 1920, when the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone had made small coin virtually impossible to find in circulation. The printer, Niebl of Grein, was a local press on the Danube serving regional Notgeld commissions across the area — not a specialist banknote firm, which shows in the modest production values typical of rural Upper Austrian issues.
Three signatories — Palmelzhofer, Temper, and Fürnhammer — were almost certainly municipal council members or aldermen countersigning by hand. The designer credit to Rud. Reiser is unusually explicit for a note of this origin.