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50 Heller St. Roman
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Roman (Municipality of Sankt Roman) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown woodcut-style vignette on a pink underprint, with two stylised salamanders or lizards intertwined among foliate scrollwork flanking a central text panel. The panel carries the redemption notice in Gothic script, stating that the Gemeinde St. Roman redeems this note per council resolution of 24 May 1920, four weeks after announcement, in legal tender at the local Raiffeisen-Kasse. The denomination "50 Heller" appears in bold Gothic lettering at the foot of the central panel, with the signature of Bürgermeister Widegger. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gemeinde St. Roman löst diesen Schein laut Sitzungsbeschluss vom 24. Mai 1920 vier Wochen nach Verlautbarung in gesetzlichem Bargelde bei der hiesigen Raiffeisen-Kasse ein. Bürgermeister: Widegger 50 Heller. |
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Sankt Roman is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communities between 1919 and 1921. With the old imperial currency system collapsed after the First World War and small coins effectively vanishing from circulation, thousands of Austrian municipalities — including ones barely large enough to appear on a regional map — issued their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce functioning.
The single signature, Widegger, almost certainly belongs to the serving Bürgermeister. No printer attribution has been firmly established for this issue.