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50 Heller St. Martin im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde St. Martin im Mühlkreis |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a detailed letterpress vignette of the village of St. Martin im Mühlkreis, with a church steeple rising above clustered rooftops set against a hillside landscape, rendered in dark brown ink on a light blue underprint. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large format at upper right within a decorative guilloche surround, with the word 'Kassenschein' in Gothic blackletter script above it and 'Heller' repeated to either side below. The lower right carries a multi-line liability text in Gothic script along with manuscript signatures of municipal officials, while the place name 'St. Martin im Mühlkreis' is inscribed in large ornamental lettering at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries the inscription 'Kassen-Schein St. Martin i. M.' in Gothic blackletter, flanked by the denomination '50' in large numerals and 'Heller' repeated to either side. The left two-thirds of the note are filled with a lengthy text block in Gothic script recording the municipal council resolution of 17 April 1920 authorizing the issue of Kassenscheine up to a total of 50,000 Kronen, redeemable by the Gemeindekasse in legal tender until 1 September 1920, with a counterfeiting warning. To the right stands a woodcut-style vignette of a medieval armored knight or patron saint figure amid stylized hop-vine and foliate ornaments, with the numeral '50' repeated twice at lower right within decorative cartouches. |
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Austrian Notgeld at the 50 Heller denomination was churned out by hundreds of small municipalities between 1919 and 1921, partly from genuine small-coin shortages and partly because the collector market had made these local emergency issues briefly profitable to produce. St. Martin im Mühlkreis, a small market town in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel, participated in this second wave — by 1920 the acute shortage justification had largely passed, and many communes were printing primarily to sell to collectors rather than to meet any real circulation need.
Paper quality and print longevity vary considerably across the Upper Austrian municipal issues of this period, with some showing significant foxing from low-grade wartime paper stocks.