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50 Heller St. Pölten
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 June 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der 50 ano 1920 Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten über 50 Heller |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet on cream paper within a fine decorative border of interlaced ornamental motifs. The municipal coat of arms of St. Pölten, surmounted by a scrolled mantle, is positioned at the top centre. A faint oval underprint carries a ghost text watermark-style overprint reading 'Gemeinde' in the field behind the main text block, which sets out the redemption obligation of the Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten in Gothic Fraktur script, including the validity period from 1 to 31 December 1920, the issue date 'St. Pölten, 30. Juni 1920', and three facsimile signature lines for the Bürgermeister, the Vice-Bürgermeister, and the Gemeinderat, followed by the anti-counterfeiting notice. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period exists in vast quantities, but St. Pölten's 1920 issues stand apart for their local production — Druckerei A. Lugaro was a St. Pölten commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which shows in the typography. The Stadtgemeinde issued these Heller notes to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued Austrian commerce well into the early 1920s, long after the wartime emergency that originally created the notgeld phenomenon.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR0927III-50 reference places this within the third series from St. Pölten, a distinction worth noting when cataloging — earlier series carry different printer attributions.