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50 Heller Untergaisbach
| Issuer | Municipality of Untergaisbach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld in blue-grey on plain paper, with a decorative border of diamond and dot guilloche elements framing the entire note. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner, with the central text in blackletter script reading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Untergaisbach über Fünfzig Heller', followed by a legal text paragraph stating the total issuance amount and validity period. Below the text, two signature lines are ruled for the Gemeinderat and the Bürgermeister respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and presents a rural pastoral composition arranged around a central oval vignette of a farmer ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough. In the upper corners are two shield-shaped vignettes — the left showing a standing peasant figure in a landscape, the right showing a rural hillside scene with figures — while the denomination numeral '50' is set at top centre within a circular frame. The inscriptions 'Fünfzig Heller' appear in large blackletter type on both the left and right flanks, with decorative flourishes and scrollwork filling the lower corners. |
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Untergaisbach is a small locality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly minor municipalities it participated in the Notgeld wave of 1920 — issuing emergency scrip when the postwar coin shortage made small change practically unavailable across the former Habsburg territories. These hyperlocal issues were produced in tiny quantities, often by local printers with no particular expertise in security printing, and were redeemable only within the issuing community. The JPR1094b designation places this within Jaksch's Austrian Notgeld catalog, the standard reference for the period.
Survival rates for village-level Notgeld vary wildly — many were redeemed and pulped, others were hoarded by collectors almost immediately, since the collecting craze for Notgeld was already underway by 1920.