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50 Heller St. Peter in der Au
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Peter in der Au |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Pale grey-green note with a floral guilloche border framing a central vignette of the market town of Sankt Peter in der Au, showing the church with its steeple rising above surrounding rooftops and trees, rendered in a woodcut-style engraving. The heading 'MARKT SANKT PETER IN DER AU' runs along the top, with the numeral '50' in the upper corners. Below the vignette, two text panels flank the year '1920', the left panel stating the total notgeld issue amount of 10,000 Kronen and the right panel giving the redemption deadline of 1 April 1921. |
| Reverse lettering | MARKT SANKT PETER IN DER AU 50 DIE MARKTGEMEINDE ST. PETER I.D.AU GIBT NOTGELDSCHEINE BIS ZU EINEM GESAMTBETRAGE VON 10.000 K AUS. 1920 DIESE SCHEINE WERDEN BIS ZUM 1. APRIL 1921 VON DER MARKTKASSA IN GESETZL. BARGELD EINGELÖST. |
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Sankt Peter in der Au is a market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 50 Heller denomination in the JPR0924b series belongs to the second phase of Austrian local emergency currency, by which point many issuing communes had moved toward more elaborate printed designs — partly practical, partly a reflection of civic pride during a period of political and economic disorientation.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly within the documented Lower Austrian municipal issues. Survival rates for these small-denomination local notes vary considerably; many were redeemed and pulped once the National Bank stabilized coin supply in the early 1920s.