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50 Heller St. Johann am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Johann am Walde (Municipality of Sankt Johann am Walde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a finely rendered woodcut-style vignette of a rural church with a pointed steeple set amid dense forest, framed overhead by sweeping conifer branches with a prominent pine cone; the artist's monogram 'KB 1920' appears at the lower right of the vignette. To the right, a large octagonal cartouche printed in olive-green bears the bold white numeral '50' as an underprint, overlaid with the issuer inscription and edition designation in black letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde ST. JOHANN am Walde 1. Auflage 50 |
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Sankt Johann am Walde is a small Upper Austrian village, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities it issued Notgeld during the postwar inflation years when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The 50 Heller denomination sits at the practical workhorse level of these emergency issues — enough to make change, small enough that nobody hoarded it.
JPR0893a suggests this is the first catalogued variety for this issuer, implying the series is limited in scope. Austrian rural Notgeld of this period was typically printed locally in small runs, and survival rates vary enormously by village.