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50 Heller Ulmerfeld
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Ulmerfeld (Market Town of Ulmerfeld) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1089I-50 |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN MARKTGEMEINDE-ULMERFELD Diese Gutscheine werden bis 30. September 1920 vom Gemeindeamte in Ulmerfeld in gesetzlichem Der Vice-Bürgermeister: Bargeldeeingelöst! Der Bürgermeister: Gemeinderat: Fünfzig 50 Heller. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on cream paper and centred on an oval vignette of a large manor house or castle set among trees, rendered in fine letterpress line work. Flanking the vignette on the left and right borders are the inscriptions FÜNFZIG HELLER set vertically, with the numerals 50 repeated in the upper corners beside the bold heading GUTSCHEIN. A dashed rule separates the vignette area from the lower panel, which carries the issuer name MARKTGEMEINDE-ULMERFELD in block capitals within a bordered cartouche. |
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Ulmerfeld is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria following the First World War. The 50 Heller denomination places this note squarely in the small-change replacement wave of 1919–1921, when the central government was unable to supply sufficient fractional coinage and local authorities were effectively licensed to print their own.
The Jaksc/Pick reference confirms this as a catalogued type rather than a phantom issue, but Ulmerfeld's series remains obscure even by Notgeld standards — community issues from villages of this size rarely circulated beyond the immediate parish.