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50 Heller St. Gotthard
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Gotthard (Municipality of St. Gotthard, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in dark violet-blue ink throughout, enclosed within a continuous interlocking oval chain border. The heading in Gothic blackletter reads 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Gotthard, N.-Ö.', followed by the terms of issue in smaller Gothic type, dated 1 May 1920, with two facsimile signatures below — Vizebürgermeister at left and Bürgermeister at right. The denomination numeral '50' appears in bold type within ruled boxes at each lower corner, with an anti-counterfeiting notice centred in the lower panel. |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Freilinger (Vizebürgermeister) and Florian Sachsenhofer (Bürgermeister) |
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A product of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave, this 50 Heller was issued by the municipality of St. Gotthard — a small Upper Austrian commune — during the acute small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency notes between 1919 and 1922, and local printers across the region took on the work. Here, both the designer and printer were based in nearby Ottensheim, keeping the commission entirely within the district.
Signed by the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister, whose authority to issue such instruments derived from local emergency powers rather than any central banking mandate.