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50 Heller Vitis
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Vitis (Market Town of Vitis) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper with a light patterned underprint of interlocking circular motifs in pale rose and blue, the reverse is enclosed within a plain double-line rectangular border. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each of the four corners. The central field is occupied entirely by a six-line verse in Gothic script, presented without any pictorial vignette. |
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| Signature(s) | F. Pennerstorfer and B. Muhr |
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Vitis is a small market town in Lower Austria's Waldviertel region, and this 50 Heller note is a piece of Austrian Notgeld — emergency small-change currency issued by municipalities during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria-Hungary from around 1916 onward. Hoarding of metal coinage had stripped everyday commerce of anything below a Krone, and local authorities were left to solve the problem themselves. Thousands of towns did exactly that.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1115-50 places this firmly in the documented Lower Austrian municipal issues. Pennerstorfer and Muhr signing as local officials is consistent with Vitis's administrative structure at the time of issue.