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50 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Georgen im Attergau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on a pale salmon-toned paper with a decorative border of repeated foliate and geometric motifs. A central vignette presents a line-engraved view of the parish church of St. Georgen im Attergau with its distinctive tower, set against a mountainous backdrop. The denomination '50' appears in the header panel alongside the abbreviated place name 'St. Georgen i.A.', with the value spelled out in Gothic script as 'Fünfzig Heller' flanking the vignette; the lower register carries the municipal guarantee text dated 29 March 1920 and three manuscript signatures of the Vizebürgermeister, Kassier, and Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Alt-St. Georgen. Fünfzig 1500 Heller 50 50 |
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Sankt Georgen im Attergau is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar period. These locally authorized emergency issues were a practical fix, not a monetary statement — the central authorities couldn't produce small denomination coinage fast enough to meet everyday demand, so towns printed their own.
The 1920 date places this in the later wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld, by which point many issuers had shifted toward more elaborate designs aimed partly at collectors, a secondary market that had become impossible to ignore.