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50 Heller St. Johann in Engstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Johann in Engstetten (Municipality of Sankt Johann in Engstetten) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a light blue underprint. The upper portion carries a curved banner inscribed 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Johann' flanking a central oval cartouche with the denomination '50 Heller', the whole set against a guilloche-style decorative border with ornamental corner scrollwork. Below, a panoramic vignette presents a view of the village of St. Johann in Engstetten with its church tower, surrounding buildings, and trees in the foreground; a small designer credit 'Entwurf Emerich Resch' appears at lower left and the printer's imprint 'Druck F. Kleiar, Amstetten' at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Tempelmeier (Bürgermeister), Engelbert Pfaffenbichler (Vicebürgermeister), and Wagner Franz (Gemeinderat) |
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This note belongs to the vast Austrian Notgeld emergency currency wave of 1920–1921, when hundreds of small municipalities printed their own low-denomination scrip to address a chronic shortage of small change following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Sankt Johann in Engstetten is a minor Lower Austrian parish near Amstetten — the printer F. Kleiar was a local Amstetten firm, keeping production close. Three signatories authenticated each note: the Bürgermeister, the Vicebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat member, an unusually thorough endorsement for a rural Heller note.