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50 Heller Strengberg
| Issuer | Strengberg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and blue-grey on cream paper, with an ornate scrollwork border framing a central vignette of a town street scene with a church tower and surrounding buildings, signed by the artist H. Pezndl. The denomination numeral '50' appears in the upper left and upper right corners, with the issuer name 'Strengberg' on a banner scroll at top and 'Gutschein' on a ribbon scroll at the bottom. A secondary vignette in the lower left depicts Schloss Schleiten, captioned accordingly. |
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| Signature(s) | Michael Heigl and Stefan Wieser and Anton Fuchs |
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Strengberg is a small municipality in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded the country after the First World War as small coin vanished entirely from circulation. The Habsburg monarchy's collapse had wrecked the supply chains for metal coinage, and municipalities down to the village level were legally permitted — indeed expected — to fill the gap themselves.
Printed locally in nearby Amstetten by F. Kielar, this is a genuinely parochial production. Three signatories was unusual even for Notgeld, suggesting the municipality required consensus authorization at the local council level.