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50 Heller St. Johann am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Johann am Walde (Municipality of St. Johann am Walde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a finely executed woodcut-style vignette of the St. Johann am Walde church tower rising above a dense conifer forest, with spruce branches and a prominent pine cone in the foreground; the artist's initials and date 'KB 1920' appear at the lower right of the vignette. To the right, an octagonal panel in tan underprint carries the large numeral '50' as a watermark-style background figure, overprinted with the issuer inscription 'Gemeinde ST. JOHANN am Walde' and the edition notice '2. Auflage' in bold letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde St. Johann am Walde haftet für die Verbindlichkeit dieses Scheines bis zum 21. Jänner 1921 Nichteingelöste werden Besitzer bezahlen |
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St. Johann am Walde is a small Upper Austrian community near Schärding, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it issued Notgeld during the postwar currency chaos when small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation. The 1920 dating places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian local emergency money — earlier issues from 1918–19 were driven by coin shortages, but by 1920 many municipalities had shifted to producing collectible series partly designed to generate revenue from philatelic demand.
The JPR0893b suffix indicates a variant within the St. Johann am Walde issue, most likely a color or paper distinction from the primary type.