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50 Heller Wien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wien (City of Vienna) |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Kassenschein issued by the Stadtgemeinde Wien, dated 3 December 1920. The left portion carries a small vignette of a Viennese cityscape with a church spire, surmounted by the municipal eagle arms, flanked by vertical marginal lettering reading FÜNFZIG HELLER on both sides. The denomination Fünfzig Heller is set in large Gothic script at centre, with the liability clause of the municipality printed below, followed by three manuscript facsimile signatures for the Bürgermeister, Vize-Bürgermeister, and Stadtrat, all overprinted with a red oval municipal seal. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Wien über 50 Heller. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Wien für weitere fünf Millionen Kronen Kassenscheine aus. Diese Kassenscheine lauten auf 50 Heller, sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Wien bis 31. Dezember 1921 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Kassenscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Vienna's municipal emergency money — Notgeld — filled a genuine void left by the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system after November 1918. The central government could not produce small-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand, so individual cities, towns, and even private businesses across the former empire issued their own scrip. Wien's series, authorized under the Stadtgemeinde, was among the more systematically produced, with Paul Gerin handling the printing from his press in Wien II., the Leopoldstadt district.
Gerin was a well-established Viennese commercial printer, not a security specialist, which is worth noting — these were never intended as long-term currency.