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50 Heller St. Johann in Engstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Johann in Engstetten (Municipality of St. Johann in Engstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in two-colour letterpress on plain paper, with the full municipal title 'Gemeinde St. Johann in Engstetten.' in bold Gothic script at the top, underlined by a rule. A four-line regional dialect verse in Upper Austrian vernacular appears at upper left, while the denomination '50 Heller.' is set in large bold type to the right; below, a central text block sets out the municipality's liability guarantee with a redemption deadline of 30 December 1920 and an anti-counterfeiting warning. Three printed facsimile signatures with their respective official titles validate the note at foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Tempelmayer, Wagner Franz and Engelbert Pfaffenbichler |
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St. Johann in Engstetten is a village in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria's smaller municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a period when fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving communities to print their own low-denomination substitutes. The Amstetten printer Druck & F. Atelier handled several such local commissions in the region.
Emerich Kraiß as named designer is the distinguishing detail here. Three signatories — Tempelmayer, Franz Wagner, and Engelbert Pfaffenbichler — authenticated each note by hand, an unusually full complement for a village issue of this denomination.