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50 Heller St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Georgen am Ybbsfeld (Municipality of Sankt Georgen am Ybbsfeld, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Carl Queiser, Amstetten |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress notgeld on cream paper with a geometric guilloche border underprint. The upper portion bears the issuer title in a rectangular cartouche inscribed GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ST. GEORGEN AM YBBSFELD, flanked on the left by an allegorical winged figure atop a column with fallen figures below, and on the right by a haloed saint standing on a pedestal. A central vignette presents a panoramic townscape with a church spire beneath a radiant sun, below which three facsimile signatures appear alongside the denomination numeral 50 within a circle at the lower centre, with HELLER in a ruled panel to its right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a blue letterpress border of ruled and ornamental frame elements, including decorative corner rosettes and vertical stripe panels along each side. The denomination 50 HELLER appears in large bold type at the top centre, flanked by two small square ornaments, followed by the redemption clause in three lines of body text, a counterfeiting prohibition notice, and small rectangular typographic ornaments arranged symmetrically; the printer's imprint is set at the foot of the note. |
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St. Georgen am Ybbsfeld is a small Lower Austrian market commune whose wartime Heller shortage pushed local authorities to commission their own emergency paper well into the postwar period. This 1920 issue — printed by Carl Queiser in the nearby district town of Amstetten — belongs to the second wave of Austrian Notgeld, by which point many municipalities were producing notes more for collector trade than genuine transactional need. The distinction matters for assessing how much actual handling a surviving example would have seen.