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50 Heller Biedermannsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf (Municipality of Biedermannsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on violet paper, the obverse carries a central landscape vignette executed in letterpress, showing a panoramic view of Biedermannsdorf with bare deciduous trees in the foreground and the village church and rooftops stretching across the middle ground. Denomination numerals '50' appear in bordered panels at left and right, with the word 'Heller' below each, while a Gothic-script heading runs across the top. Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials — Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Kämmerer — appear below the vignette, with cautionary anti-counterfeiting notices flanking them. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf Bez. Mödling N.Ö. GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG HELLER 50 Heller LAUT SITZUNGSBESCHLUSS VOM 22 JUNI 1920 GIBT DIE GEMEINDE BIEDERMANNSDORF GUTSCHEINE AUS UND HAFTET DAFÜR MIT IHREM GANZEN VERMÖGEN DIE GÜLTIGKEIT DIESER GUTSCHEINE ERLISCHT MIT DEN 15. JULI 1920. BIS ZU DIESEM TAGE WERDEN DIESE VON DER GEMEINDE IM GESETZLICHEN BARGELD EINGELÖST. NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER BÜRGERMEISTER KÄMMERER DRUCK VON J. WEINHOFER'S ERBEN MÖDLING ZEICHNG. VON E. HERRMANN MÖDLING |
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Biedermannsdorf is a small municipality south of Vienna, and like hundreds of Austrian communes in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg economy. The printer, J. Weinhofer's Erben of nearby Mödling, handled emergency currency for several Lower Austrian municipalities during this period — a practical choice of geography rather than prestige.
The designer credit to E. Herrmann is unusually specific for a local Heller note of this type. Most comparable issues went uncredited.