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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned note printed in blue-grey ink within a scrollwork border matching the obverse. To the left, an oval vignette presents the celebrated St. Georgen Linde (linden tree) in a landscape setting, labelled 'St. Georgner Linde' in letterpress. The right field carries a four-line verse in Gothic script above the denomination legend 'Gutschein der Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau' in Fraktur; the denomination '50 Heller' appears in two oval cartouches at lower left and lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Stumm bin ich Zeuge 1200 Jahr Von grosser Not, von bitteren Klagen Bei deutschen Volk, bei deutschen Wesen, sah ich nie zagen. Gutschein der Markt-Commune St. Georgen im Attergau. 50 Heller |
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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.