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50 Heller Viehofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Viehofen (Municipality of Viehofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark green on a salmon-pink crosshatch underprint and divided into two distinct zones. To the left, a finely engraved landscape vignette renders a hilltop manor or castle amid dense foliage and tall trees, with the denomination numeral '50' set in an oval cartouche at upper left. The right panel carries the issuing text in Gothic blackletter script, with the redemption clause and date 'Juni 1920' below, followed by three manuscript signatures above their respective role designations: Finanzreferent, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-beige paper surface with a faint rectangular border indentation, consistent with the modest emergency issue character of Austrian Notgeld of this period. |
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Viehofen was a small municipality in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of comparable communities, it turned to Notgeld in 1920 when small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from everyday circulation. These emergency issues were a practical stopgap, authorized locally and redeemable only within the issuing community — which meant their survival depended entirely on whether holders bothered to redeem them before the series was withdrawn.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1112-50 places this squarely within the vast Austrian Notgeld cataloging project — a corpus so large that individual municipal issues remain poorly documented even now.