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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pischelsdorf (Municipality of Pischelsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on plain white paper by letterpress, the obverse is enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border with ornamental corner and midpoint devices. At the top, the denomination '50 Heller' appears in large numerals accompanied by italic script, while the central vignette — rendered in a woodcut-like style — shows a male agricultural worker bent forward in the act of field labour against a rural landscape with rolling hills. Below the vignette, a text panel carries the validity and anti-counterfeiting notices in italic type, with the edition reference 'Aufl. II/3' printed outside the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet on plain white paper within a matching double-ruled border with identical ornamental corner and midpoint devices. The entire design consists of typeset text in a combination of roman and italic typefaces, presenting the municipal authority's formal declaration of issue, the legal basis for redemption, and the facsimile signature of the mayor. |
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Pischelsdorf is a small Lower Austrian municipality, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921, when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to plug change shortages themselves. Municipalities with no particular claim to philatelic fame issued paper in runs sometimes as small as a few hundred pieces, signed by whoever held the mayor's seal that week.
Franz Preiser's signature here likely indicates a local official rather than a printer or engraver. The printing source for most Lower Austrian municipal notgeld of this period remains unattributed.