emergency currency, notgeld, 50 heller, Austria.
There is light dirt on both sides of the note and ingrained dirt around the edges, there are gummed hinges on the reverse.
History note
Currency note issued in Vienna, Austria.
Note is located in the VARIOUS album, page 115.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.
