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50 Heller Timelkam
| Issuer | Gemeinde Timelkam (Municipality of Timelkam, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-grey notgeld printed in dark brown and red by letterpress, framed by a decorative scalloped border running the full perimeter; the denomination numeral '50' appears in red within ornate cartouches at upper left and upper right, separated by a vignette of three camels carrying riders in procession across the top register. A horizontal rope-pattern guilloche band divides this upper register from the main field below, where a shield-shaped vignette to the left encloses a line-drawn view of a church tower with a mounted cameleer in the foreground. Gothic-script text to the right identifies the issuing municipality and denomination, with the printed signature of the Bürgermeister beneath, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light blue-grey reverse enclosed within a chain-link decorative border in dark brown, the entire field occupied by a two-section German text block: the upper section in Roman type cites the legal basis of issue referencing the municipal council resolution of 1 April 1920, while the lower section, flanked by red '50' numerals on each side, sets out the redemption terms of 14 days following public announcement of the validity period. A bold anti-counterfeiting warning in spaced type closes the foot of the note. |
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Timelkam is a small market town in the Vöcklabruck district of Upper Austria, and this note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921 when the collapsed postwar economy left genuine coin almost entirely absent from everyday trade. The Gemeinde — not a bank — issued it directly, with the Bürgermeister's signature standing in for any institutional authority. Johann Leitner's name here is less a guarantee of value than a legal formality required under the emergency provisions permitting local authorities to issue small-denomination scrip.
Fifty Heller was among the most common denominations at this level — enough for a loaf of bread, essentially the floor of practical daily commerce.