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50 Heller St. Nikola an der Donau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Nikola an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned notgeld printed on cream paper, with an ornate letterpress border enclosing a central oval vignette of the market town of St. Nikola an der Donau, showing the parish church with its slender steeple amid village buildings and lush foliage. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is inscribed at upper left and right, with the heading 'Gut-Schein' at top centre, while the validity date '31. Dezember 1920' and the issuer inscription 'St. Nikola a/D.' appear in the lower portion alongside two manuscript signatures. A decorative cartouche to the right carries the numeral '50' above the issuing authority legend 'Marktgemeinde St. Nikola a/D. im Strudengau'. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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St. Nikola an der Donau is a small market town on the Danube in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept through Austria in 1920 — a period when chronic coin shortages and currency instability pushed municipal authorities, however small, to issue their own emergency scrip. The printer, J. M. Hiebl of Grein, was a local house serving the Strudengau region; Grein sits only a few kilometers downstream, which makes this a genuinely local production in every sense.
Authentication relied on an applied official stamp rather than any printed security device — typical vulnerability of municipal Austrian Notgeld, and a reason forgeries, though rarely worth the effort, do occasionally surface in smaller denominations.