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50 Heller Streitwiesen
| Issuer | Municipality of Streitwiesen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dusky rose on cream paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of a ruined castle or fortified tower set within an arched landscape, framed by decorative scrollwork borders with stylised animal figures at the upper corners. The denomination numeral '50' appears in circular cartouches at lower left and right, each inscribed 'HELLER', while the place name 'STREITWIESEN' is set in bold letterpress across the top with 'N.Ö.' below. The lower portion bears a multi-line redemption text in German, followed by four handwritten facsimile signatures with their respective titles. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Weiss (Förster), Ing. Albert Euel (Forstverwaltер), Alois Gruber (Gastwirt) and Franz Haide (Wirtschaftsbesitzer) |
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Streitwiesen is a small village in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922 when chronic small-change shortages made local emergency currency a practical necessity. What distinguishes this particular piece is the signing authority: four individuals, none of them a mayor or municipal treasurer. A forester, a forestry administrator, an innkeeper, and a farm owner — the note is essentially guaranteed by whoever happened to hold local economic weight in a village with no formal banking presence.
That combination of signatories is unusual even within the Notgeld corpus.