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50 Heller Ybbs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Ybbs |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green on a light tan ground, the reverse centres on a large circular vignette reproducing the medieval municipal seal of Ybbs, showing a fortified gateway with two crenellated towers above a curtain wall, surrounded by the Latin legend of the city seal. The circular seal is framed by elaborate foliate scrollwork extending to the four corners, with the denomination numeral '50' at upper left and upper right; a validity date panel runs vertically at left and a penalty clause panel at right, with a Gothic motto along the upper margin. |
| Reverse lettering | In großer Not war's ein Gebot | SIGILLVM CIVITATIS IABSENSIS | 50 | Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 | Die Fälschung wird gerichtlich bestraft. | 1920 |
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Ybbs an der Donau was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities that issued their own small-denomination Notgeld during the postwar economic collapse, when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The Stadtgemeinde series from 1920 falls into the second wave of Austrian local emergency money — by this point the practice had become sufficiently routine that provincial printers like Emil Prietzel in Steyr were handling municipal commissions across Upper Austria with considerable regularity.
Prietzel's output for small-town issuers tends toward economical production: modest print runs, limited color work, functional rather than elaborate. The JPR1258a designation within the Jaksch catalog places this among the documented Ybbs issues, though survivorship varies considerably across the denomination range.