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50 Heller - Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft Linz
| Issuer | Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft Linz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central text panel bordered by an ornamental frame of oak leaves and acorns rendered in green-grey tones. To the left, the denomination numeral '50' is set in bold Gothic typeface above the inscription 'Heller'. The central panel contains a five-line verse in Fraktur script attributed to Schiller ('Frei nach Schiller.'), beginning 'Ungleich verteilt sind die Lebensmittel'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet-grey on cream paper and presents a central vignette of two standing figures in period dress flanking the crowned heraldic eagle shield of the city of Linz, with an oak tree bearing acorns to the left. Printed text identifies the issuer as 'Mittelstands-Vereinigung' and carries the date 'Linz, 21. April 1920', validity clause, and three manuscript signatures. A large rectangular violet overprint stamp reads 'Weihnachtsspende zu Gunsten der Amerikanischen Kinderhilfsaktion', applied diagonally across the face of the note. |
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The Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft — roughly, the middle-class economic cooperative — was one of dozens of commercial and trade associations across German-speaking Austria that resorted to issuing their own Notgeld in the early 1920s as small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. This was a cooperative instrument, not a municipal one: its acceptance was limited to member businesses in and around Linz, which sharply constrains how widely it could have circulated.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0550-50 places it within the documented Austrian commercial Notgeld series, though surviving examples are sparsely catalogued.