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50 Heller St. Leonhard am Forst und Ruprechtshofen
| Issuer | Municipalities of Sankt Leonhard am Forst and Ruprechtshofen (Federal State of Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld on a lined underprint, with the denomination numeral '50' in oval cartouches at all four corners. The title 'Gutschein' is set in ornate Gothic blackletter script at the top centre. A central oval vignette in fine line engraving illustrates a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across open fields, with a village church spire and rooftops visible in the background under a radiant sky. Decorative vegetal motifs and pillar elements flank the vignette on either side, with validity and issuing authority inscriptions divided between the left and right margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN 50 HELLER DER GEMEINDE RUPRECHTSHOFEN. NUR GÜLTIG BIS 30. SEPT. 1920. UND DER GEMEINDE ST. LEONHARD a/FORST. NUR GÜLTIG BIS 30. SEPT. 1920. DIE GEMEINDEN LÖSEN DIE SCHEINE VOM 15. BIS 30. SEPT. 1920 EIN DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GESCHÄFTSFÜHRENDE GEMEINDERAT: DRUCK RUDOLF u. FRITZ RADINGER, SCHEIBS. ENTWURF HANS ROHN. |
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This 50 Heller note is a product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system — small municipalities across Lower Austria were forced to print their own emergency currency simply to keep local commerce moving while the central government scrambled to stabilize the Krone. The joint issuance by two neighboring communes, Sankt Leonhard am Forst and Ruprechtshofen, was a practical arrangement: splitting printing costs with a nearby parish was cheaper than contracting separately. Rudolf u. Fritz Radinger in Scheibbs was one of the regional printers that absorbed this sudden demand from municipalities with no prior experience commissioning currency.