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10 Heller Maria-Enzersdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria-Enzersdorf (Municipality of Maria Enzersdorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and salmon tones, the note carries two circular vignettes side by side, framed by an ornamental border of grapevines, leaves, and grape clusters. The left vignette presents the ruins of the Rauchkogel tower, labelled above, while the right vignette illustrates an old wine press (Alte Weinpresse), also captioned above, with a figure at work beside the machinery. The denomination '10' appears in large Gothic numerals at centre below the vignettes, flanked by the word 'Heller' on each side, with the issuer inscription in Gothic script beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on a salmon-toned paper with a fine wavy-line underprint, the reverse is enclosed within a rectangular border. At the top centre, the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing a lamb, set against a hatched background and flanked by grapevine branches and foliate scrollwork — serves as the principal vignette. Below, a multi-line redemption text in Gothic script states the terms of validity, followed by three signature lines for the Bürgermeister (centre), two Vizebürgermeister (left and right), and the Kämmerer (treasurer), each with a handwritten signature. |
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Maria Enzersdorf is a small town south of Vienna, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money — Notgeld — issued between 1920 and 1921 when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg currency left smaller communities without adequate small change. Hundreds of Austrian communes issued their own paper in this period, but the quality varied enormously. Fritz Karl Mundt, who designed this series, was a professional artist, and Maria Enzersdorf's issues are generally regarded among the more carefully executed examples of Lower Austrian municipal Notgeld.