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50 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau
| Issuer | Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed in blue-grey ink, enclosed within an ornate scrollwork border with foliate corner embellishments. To the left, an oval cartouche encloses the municipal coat of arms of St. Georgen im Attergau rendered in fine letterpress. The right portion carries the issuing authority text in Gothic Fraktur script, citing the resolution date of 6 June 1920 and a total issue of 25,000 Kronen, with a redemption clause at the Marktcommune-Kasse; the lower margin bears an anti-counterfeiting warning, followed by a manuscript signature of the Vorstand. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau gibt laut Beschluss vom 6. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 25000 Kr. aus, und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein bis 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe bei der Marktcommune-Kasse in gesetzl. Bargeld einzulösen. Der Vorstand Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market commune on the western shore of the Attersee in Upper Austria — the kind of locality that would never have issued currency under ordinary circumstances. This is Notgeld, the emergency small-change scrip that flooded Austria between roughly 1919 and 1922 when coin shortages left provincial communities with no practical means of making change. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in nearby Gmunden handled a considerable volume of this regional Notgeld work, supplying dozens of Upper Austrian communes with locally printed issues.
The 1920 date places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian Notgeld, by which point many issues were being printed as much for collector sale as genuine circulation need.