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50 Heller Vöcklamarkt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vöcklamarkt (Municipality of Vöcklamarkt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries the issuing authority legend in Gothic blackletter script, flanked on each side by a decorative vignette box enclosing the numeral '50' within a circular frame ornamented with stylised serpentine and foliate motifs. The lower two-thirds of the note is occupied by a large landscape vignette rendered in fine line illustration, presenting a panoramic view of Vöcklamarkt with a church steeple rising above the rooftops, open fields in the foreground, and rolling hills beneath a clouded sky; an artist's signature appears in the lower-left corner of the vignette. The entire composition is printed in blue-grey ink on cream paper with a simple ruled border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Vöcklamarkt |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that left small-denomination Reichspost circulation essentially non-functional across rural Upper Austria. Vöcklamarkt, a market town in the Hausruckkreis district, was among hundreds of municipalities that printed their own fractional scrip in 1920 to plug the gap left by the collapsing Habsburg monetary system.
The Gemeinde issues from this region were typically printed locally or through provincial stationery suppliers — not Vienna — and were redeemable only within the issuing community, which kept most examples in tight geographic circulation before being demonetized as Kronen coinage stabilized.