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50 Heller St. Marien
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Marien (Municipality of St. Marien) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Marien. Fünfzig Heller Weichstetten. St. Michael. St. Marien. 50 |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse printed in dark blue, with the denomination numeral '50' in each upper corner and a decorative dot-and-circle ornamental band beneath the heading. A central text block within a simple dotted-rule border sets out the municipal resolution of 21 April 1920 authorising the issue of vouchers to a total value of 50,000 Kronen, redeemable at the community treasury in legal tender until 1 May 1921. The note is dated 'St. Marien, am 13. Juni 1920' and bears the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, with an anti-counterfeiting warning printed at the foot. |
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St. Marien is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 50 Heller note belongs to the enormous wave of Notgeld issued across Austria in 1920 as small-denomination coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Thousands of Austrian communes printed their own emergency issues that year, and the Jaksch catalogue documents the variation obsessively — the ".2" suffix here signals a recognized die or printing variant within the 50 Heller type for this issuer.
Austrian municipal Notgeld of this period was often redeemable only locally and for a limited window, which drove hoarding by collectors almost from the moment of issue.