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50 Heller Stroheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stroheim (Municipality of Stroheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld voucher with a guilloche-patterned border enclosing a central vignette of the Stroheim townscape, with a church spire rising above surrounding buildings. The denomination '50 Heller' is set in large calligraphic script to the right, with an ornate scrollwork cartouche to the upper left, the issue date 'Stroheim, am 25. Juni 1920,' and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature below. A ribbon banner along the lower margin carries a four-line German verse referencing paper currency and local commerce. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse enclosed by a bold geometric frame of parallel rule lines forming a stepped rectangular border. The text, set in blackletter type, states the municipality's obligation to redeem the note within four weeks of public notice in legal tender, followed by the Bürgermeister's printed name and an anti-counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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Stroheim is a small parish municipality on the south bank of the Danube in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian and German municipalities between 1919 and 1922. With the postwar currency in chaos and small change effectively vanishing from circulation, thousands of local authorities printed their own emergency fractional notes. Lanz of Eferding — the nearest market town — was the obvious choice for a municipality this size, and the print run was almost certainly modest.
Josef Kreuzwieser served as Bürgermeister of Stroheim during this period. His signature here is the note's only claim to administrative authority.