Catalog
10 Heller Klausen-Leopoldsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf (Municipality of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse, largely unprinted, with a single violet rubber-stamp impression centred vertically in the middle of the note, enclosed within an elongated cartouche border; the stamp reads 'Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf' in cursive script. |
| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf |
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Klausen-Leopoldsdorf is a small municipality in the Vienna Woods, southwest of the capital. This note belongs to the Austrian Notgeld issues of 1920–1921, when acute coin shortages forced hundreds of municipalities — including villages with almost no commercial infrastructure — to print their own small-denomination emergency scrip. F. Seitenberg was a minor Viennese printer active in this period, responsible for several such municipal commissions.
The issuing community had a population of only a few hundred at the time. That a printer's invoice and a municipal stamp were sufficient legal basis for currency says something about how thoroughly the postwar Austrian monetary system had broken down.