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50 Heller St. Peter in der Au
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Peter in der Au |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde St. Peter in der Au. Fünfzig Heller Die Marktgemeinde St. Peter in der Au haftet für die Verbindlichkeit. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. der Vizebürgerm.: der Bürgermeister: Der Finanzreferant: |
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| Signature(s) | Nikfor Schachner (Vizebürgermeister), Franz Hochleitner (Bürgermeister), and Rudolf Freiwald (Finanzreferent) |
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St. Peter in der Au is a market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1920 and 1921 — when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small-denomination coinage essentially absent from everyday commerce. Local governments printed their own stop-gap paper rather than watch retail trade seize up entirely.
F. Prietzel was a Steyr-based printer with no particular prestige in the Notgeld trade, which puts this squarely in the utilitarian camp of the genre. Three signatories — the mayor, deputy mayor, and finance officer — authenticated the issue, a formality that gave the notes at least the appearance of municipal authority.