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50 Heller St. Veit an der Gölsen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Veit an der Gölsen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A letterpress-printed Notgeld note dominated by a large central vignette in pen-and-ink style, signed by the artist E. Deutsch, illustrating two figures at a well or pump in the foreground of a rural-industrial landscape, with factory buildings emitting smoke visible in the background and a farmer ploughing a field to the left. The denomination numeral '50' appears in bold Gothic script at upper left and upper right corners, flanked by wheat-ear ornaments, with the issuing authority 'Gemeinde St. Veit a. d. Gölsen' and the value 'Fünfzig Heller' in large blackletter type across the top. Below left the text 'Einlösungstermin bis 31. Dez. 1920' states the redemption deadline, and to the lower right the anti-counterfeiting legend 'Nachahmung wird bestraft' appears; two manuscript signatures of municipal officials are present at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Hilf dir in der Not! Gutschein der Marktgemeinde St. Veit a. d. Gölsen, welcher vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst wird. |
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St. Veit an der Gölsen is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the currency chaos that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire and the severe coin shortage that came with it. Local governments printed their own emergency small-change scrip simply because there was nothing else to put in a pocket.
The designer credit to E. Deutsch is one of the few concrete details that distinguishes this from the hundreds of anonymous municipal issues of the same period.