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50 Heller St. Peter in der Au
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Peter in der Au |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set on a light paper ground with a repeating numeral '50' watermark-style underprint across the entire field. The denomination '50' appears in bold at upper left and right corners, flanking the title 'Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde St. Peter in der Au' in Gothic blackletter script. Centre field carries the value inscription 'Fünfzig Heller' in large decorative red Gothic lettering, with the municipal coat of arms — a key on a shield — positioned centrally between the two words. Below, a three-line liability and anti-counterfeiting text is printed in Gothic script, followed by three facsimile signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Finanzreferent. |
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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.