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10 Heller St. Lorenz am Mondsee
| Issuer | Municipality of Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a lively Art Nouveau-style vignette by Alfred Gerstenbrand occupying the right two-thirds of the note, depicting a crowd of elegantly dressed figures in a public gathering scene rendered in a loose, illustrative pen-and-wash manner. At upper left, a decorative cartouche bears the denomination '10 Heller' in Gothic script, accompanied by sinuous Art Nouveau foliage along the left margin. Below the vignette, the artist's name 'Alfred Gerstenbrand' appears in small script, and the inscription 'St. Lorenz am Mondsee.' is set in bold Gothic blackletter across the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Heller Alfred Gerstenbrand St. Lorenz am Mondsee. |
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Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee is a small resort community on the Mondsee in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to issuing its own Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. These local emergency issues were typically authorized at the Gemeinde level with no central oversight, which is why the quality and design ambition varied so wildly across issues from neighboring villages.
Alfred Gerstenbrand's involvement places this among the more carefully considered pieces in the regional series — he was a known contributor to Austrian Notgeld design rather than a local amateur pressed into service.