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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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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse lettering | GEMEINDE-VORSTEHUNG S. NIKOLA Ob. d. Donau Bez. |
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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.