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50 Heller Türnitz
| Issuer | Gemeinde Türnitz (Municipality of Türnitz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 78 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on green-tinted paper in a letterpress style typical of Austrian Notgeld issues, the obverse carries the title inscription across the top in Gothic blackletter script. A central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Türnitz — a quartered shield with a tower and plant motifs — flanked by laurel branches within a decorative cartouche border. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in bold blackletter numerals within ruled panels at left and right, with three manuscript signatures of municipal officials across the lower portion beneath their respective titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Türnitz unter Haftung der Gemeinde Einlösungstermin 31. Dezember 1920 50 Heller Der Obmann der Finanzkommission Der Bürgermeister Der Vizebürgermeister |
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Türnitz is a small paper-mill village in Lower Austria, and its Notgeld issues of 1920 reflect exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency coinage that proliferated across Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural municipalities starved of small change. The Gemeinde issued these notes under the same legal framework that empowered hundreds of Austrian towns to produce their own interim currency between 1919 and 1921.
Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1086 covers the full Türnitz Notgeld set. The 50 Heller is among the more commonly encountered denominations from this municipality, though survival in undamaged condition is inconsistent given the low-grade paper stock typical of village-issued Austrian Notgeld.