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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf (Municipality of Biedermannsdorf, Bezirk Mödling, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 15 July 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned notgeld issued by Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf, centred on a letterpress vignette of a rural panorama showing bare trees in the foreground, a village with a church steeple at centre, and open fields beyond. Denomination cartouches bearing '50' appear at upper left and upper right, with 'Heller' inscribed vertically on both lateral margins, flanked by the anti-counterfeiting warning 'NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT'. Three facsimile signatures of municipal officials — Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Kämmerer — run along the lower margin beneath a two-column validity clause. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf Bez. Mödling N.Ö. GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG HELLER 50 Heller NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: BÜRGERMEISTER: KÄMMERER: |
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Biedermannsdorf is a small municipality south of Vienna, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued in the wake of the Habsburg collapse. The postwar currency chaos left small communities without adequate coinage, and hundreds of municipalities — including the smallest market towns and rural Gemeinden — printed their own emergency fractions. Jaksch catalogs an enormous number of these, and the Biedermannsdorf series is among the more obscure entries.
These local Austrian Notgeld issues were typically printed in small runs and redeemed quickly once the national coinage situation stabilized, meaning survivor populations are often deceptively thin for such recent material.