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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 lettering | Gutschein 50 St. Georgen i.A. Fünfzig Heller Die Marktgemeinde St. Georgen im Attergau in Oberösterreich haftet laut Gemeindeausschussbeschluß vom 29. März 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein 30 Tage nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen! Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Kassier: Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on pale salmon paper, the reverse centres on a panoramic landscape vignette of 'Alt-St. Georgen' rendered in fine line-engraving, showing a hillside village with a hilltop castle, scattered farmsteads, and rolling alpine foothills beneath a clouded sky. Vertical side panels carry stylised oak-leaf and acorn decorative columns, each enclosing a numeral '50' in a circular cartouche. Along the lower border, the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is lettered in Gothic script flanking a serial number cartouche reading '1500'. |
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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.