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50 Heller St. Georgen an der Gusen
| Issuer | Market Town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a green vignette of old stone ruins partially obscured by overgrown vegetation, enclosed within a green border. At right, a brown and black floral vignette is accompanied by the denomination numeral '50' in large print. The printer's imprint and edition designation appear in green along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | St Georgen A. D. Gusen Erste Auflage Zweite Fassung KLEMENS BROSCH LINZ 1920. ZWEITE FASSUNG, ERSTE AUFLAGE (Translation: St. Georgen an der Gusen First Edition Second Version KLEMENS BROSCH LINZ 1920. Second Version, First Edition) |
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Klemens Brosch was one of the most gifted graphic artists working in Linz in the early twentieth century — and also one of the most tragic. He died by suicide in 1925 at thirty-six, leaving behind a body of work that included commercial graphics, bookplates, and a small number of Notgeld commissions for Upper Austrian municipalities. His involvement in the St. Georgen an der Gusen issue means this note was both designed and printed by the same hand, an uncommon arrangement that gives the piece a coherence rarely seen in the genre.
The Notgeld wave that produced it was driven by a nationwide coin shortage following Austria's defeat in the First World War, with market towns issuing their own fractional scrip to keep local commerce moving.