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50 Heller St. Leonhard bei Freistadt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Leonhard bei Freistadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black over a light green and rose tint, enclosed within a decorative border with hatched corner cartouches bearing the numeral 50 at upper left and right. A banner cartouche at the top carries the historical caption. The central vignette presents a pen-and-ink style panoramic view of St. Leonhard as it appeared in 1525, with the parish church and its onion-domed tower dominating the hilltop, surrounded by farm buildings, cottages, and rolling countryside. A period German verse inscription runs along the lower margin within a ruled panel. |
| Reverse lettering | St. Leonhard anno 1525. 50 50 Ein Helffer ist er allerhandт Tropfen, So hieber komen u auf ihn hoffen. |
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St. Leonhard bei Freistadt is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to fill a practical gap — small change had all but vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and communes were legally permitted to issue their own emergency fractions to keep local trade moving.
Parish-level issuers like this one rarely produced large print runs, and redemption was typically limited to the issuing commune itself.