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50 Heller St. Leonhard bei Freistadt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Leonhard bei Freistadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green note printed in black, with a double-ruled border framing the entire face. The upper portion carries the denomination legend in large script lettering, below which a multi-line text body sets out the Notgeld declaration, the total issue amount of 50,000 Kronen, and the redemption guarantee backed by the municipality's movable and immovable assets. The place and date of issue appear in the centre, followed by three manuscript signatures — those of the Bürgermeister and his two deputies — with their respective role designations printed below; an anti-counterfeiting warning runs along the lower margin. |
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| 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.