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20 Heller Moosdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Moosdorf (Municipality of Moosdorf) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0628Ae-20 |
| Obverse description | Pink-toned Notgeld voucher with a central panoramic vignette of the village of Moosdorf, rendered in fine letterpress engraving with agricultural fields in the foreground and a church tower rising above the roofline against a clouded sky. A decorative chain-link border frames the central scene, flanked at upper left and right by ornate scroll cartouches, with the denomination numeral '20' set within a wreath medallion at the top centre. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in bold within sunburst rosettes at lower left and right, with a two-line validity and anti-counterfeiting legend centred below the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned reverse enclosed within a fine dotted rectangular border, with the denomination numerals '20' set in bold Gothic script in the upper corners. The central text block, printed in Fraktur typeface, identifies the note as a Gutschein (voucher) of the Gemeinde Moosdorf for 20 Heller, followed by a guaranty clause stating the municipality pledges its entire assets for redemption. Below, the title 'Der Bürgermeister:' precedes a facsimile manuscript signature. |
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Moosdorf is a small market commune in the Braunau am Inn district of Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency issues — Kriegsnotgeld — produced during and after the First World War when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. The hoarding of metal coins, even base ones, was near-universal by 1916, and local authorities across Austria were left with no practical choice but to print their own fractional paper.
The single signature belongs to the Bürgermeister Esterbauer, whose counter-signature was the legal instrument giving the note local validity. Without it, the paper had no standing.