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50 Heller Treubach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Treubach (Municipality of Treubach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress Notgeld in red and black, framed by an ornate border of stylised roses and foliage in red. The central panel presents a finely detailed black topographic vignette of the village of Treubach, with the parish church and its characteristic onion dome rising above farm buildings, trees, and rolling hills; the denomination numeral '50' occupies a white cartouche at top centre. A curved ribbon banner along the lower edge of the vignette carries the issuer's name in decorative script, with an artist's signature inscribed beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Gemeinde Treubach |
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Treubach is a small commune in Upper Austria, a few kilometers from Braunau am Inn — the same border town where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, though that fact is incidental here. What matters in 1920 is the broader emergency: the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 left hundreds of Austrian municipalities scrambling to produce their own small-denomination notes, the so-called Notgeld, to cover the catastrophic shortage of coins. Treubach's 50 Heller was part of that wave.
Josef Moser's press in Braunau handled several local issues of this type. The single signature, Leop. Dachs, almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister at the time of issue.