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10 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on a light green guilloche underprint; the left panel carries the large numeral '10' above 'Heller' and the municipal arms of Mondsee — a horizontally divided shield with a lake scene and boat beneath horizontal lines. The right vignette, rendered in bold woodcut style, presents a crowd of costumed figures in festive procession. The inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' runs along the lower right border, with the designer credit 'REISENBICHLER' below. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress on a light lilac guilloche underprint; the left panel bears the large numeral '10' above 'Heller' and a block of redemption text in German script, closing with the title 'Ober Bürgermeister' and the facsimile signature of Ant. Kaltenbrunner. The right vignette, in the same bold woodcut manner as the obverse, portrays two figures working on a large wooden structure or vessel at a rocky lakeshore, with mountains receding into the background. The inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' appears at lower right, with 'REISENBICHLER' below the border. |
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Mondsee is a small market town on the Salzkammergut lake of the same name in Upper Austria. This note is one of the thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities without adequate small change. Municipal authorities, businesses, and even individual estates printed their own fractional currency from roughly 1919 through 1921 to fill the gap.
The designer credit to Reisenbichler is local — almost certainly a regional artist or printer rather than a professional banknote engraver. Ant. Kaltenbrunner, whose signature authorizes the note, served as a municipal official at the time of issue.