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50 Heller St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Georgen am Ybbsfelde |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on a light cream ground within a matching ornamental border, the centre bears a diamond-shaped vignette enclosing a rural allegory composed of agricultural implements — a sheaf of grain, a scythe, a wheel, and floral motifs — set against a dotted underprint, with the year digits '1', '9', '2', '0' positioned at the four corners of the diamond. Denomination cartouches reading '50 HELLER' appear at lower left and lower right. A motto banner across the upper portion reads 'Nicht Erbrecht noch Geburt — Arbeit adelt!', flanked by text panels stating the municipality's guarantee of redemption and the validity period. |
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| Signature(s) | S. Klamminger (Bürgermeister), S. Pannygrita (Vizebürgermeister) and Otto Raynoschek (Gemeinderat) |
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Sankt Georgen am Ybbsfelde is a small Lower Austrian municipality on the Ybbs river, and like hundreds of similar communes it resorted to printing its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The 1920 dating places this note in the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency issues — by then the acute crisis of 1918–19 had eased somewhat, but small denominations remained practically unavailable in rural areas, keeping local scrip in demand.
Three signatories authenticated the issue: the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat member — an unusually full municipal quorum for a 50 Heller piece.