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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-blue letterpress on plain paper, the face is framed by an ornate foliate border with the denomination numeral 50 repeated at each corner. A rectangular central vignette presents a line-art view of the Höldriche Mühle mill building amid trees, captioned 'DIE GEBURTSSTÄTTE DER SCHUBERT'SCHEN MÜLLERLIEDER', above which a circular portrait medallion of Franz Schubert is inset; the heading 'KASSENSCHEIN' and the issuing authority 'Gemeinde HINTERBRÜHL bei Wien' are set in bold and decorative Gothic letterpress, with the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' below, and a musical staff bearing the opening bars of a Schubert melody printed at the base above three facsimile manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | JULIENTURM. Dieser Kassenschein wird von der Gemeinde Hinterbrühl bis 31. Juli 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Hinterbrühl, am 25. April 1920. Wehhofer, Mödling. |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village in Lower Austria, better known today as the site of the Seegrotte — Europe's largest underground lake, later used by Heinkel as a subterranean aircraft factory. In 1920 it was issuing its own emergency currency, which tells you everything about the state of postwar Austrian monetary infrastructure. The collapse of the Habsburg economy left municipalities printing Notgeld simply to make change; the national supply of small coins had effectively ceased to function.
Wehhofer in nearby Mödling was a local commercial printer, not a security press. That matters for collectors: print quality and paper consistency vary within the same series.