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50 Kronen Graslitz
| Issuer | Bezirk Graslitz (District of Graslitz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Krone (1892-1925) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in olive-gold on white paper and relies exclusively on intricate guilloché work for decoration. A dense fine-line guilloche underprint covers the entire field, framed by a scalloped outer border and an inner rectangular border with repeating foliate and heart-shaped lathe-work. A large central medallion of lobed guilloche rosette design occupies the middle of the note, across which the denomination FÜNFZIG KRONEN is overprinted in a plain sans-serif cartouche. Four corner ornaments of star and snowflake form complete the design. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper stock; specific watermark pattern not confirmed from catalog sources. |
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Graslitz (now Kraslice, Czech Republic) was one of dozens of Bohemian and Moravian districts that issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — in the autumn of 1918 as the Austro-Hungarian monetary system collapsed around the armistice. These district-level issues filled an acute small-denomination vacuum; the central authorities had neither the capacity nor the coherence to respond in time.
The watermarked paper is worth noting. Most comparable district issues from this period used whatever stock was locally available, often plain. A security watermark on a Bezirk-level emergency note suggests either pre-existing administrative paper stock was repurposed, or the district had unusual access to better-quality materials through local industrial connections — Graslitz was a significant center of musical instrument manufacturing.