Currency (notgeld: emergency wartime currency), paper; 50 Heller, in red, black, tan, on white background, with picture of village on back; valid through 31 October 1920; length 8.1 cm; width 6.1 cm.
Donor:
George Leitmann and Nancy Leitmann
Collection place:
Freistadt, Upper Austria
Verbatim coll. place:
Austria, Freistadt
Production place:
Freistadt, Upper Austria
Culture or time period:
Austrian
Collector:
Josef Leitmann
Collection date:
early 1930s
Materials:
Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Notgelden
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1919-1920
Context of use:
Gutschein der Gemeinde (or Stadtgemeinde): voucher issued by municipality immediately after World War I.
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)