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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 | The obverse is printed in dark brown on a grey guilloche underprint and is divided into a central vignette framed by a ruled border, with denomination cartouches at left and right each reading '50 Heller' in Gothic script. The central vignette presents a landscape view of Biedermannsdorf with bare deciduous trees in the foreground and a church tower visible among low buildings in the middle ground, executed in fine letterpress line engraving. Authorising text blocks flank the vignette at left and right, three facsimile signatures of municipal officials — Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Kassier — appear below the vignette, and the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf Bez. Mödling N.Ö.' runs along the top in bold Gothic lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf Bez. Mödling N.Ö. 50 Heller GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG HELLER LAUT SITZUNGSBESCHLUSS VOM 22 JUNI 1920 GIBT DIE GEMEINDE BIEDERMANNSDORF GUTSCHEINE AUS UND HAFTET DAFÜR MIT IHREM GANZEN VERMÖGEN DIE GÜLTIGKEIT DER GUTSCHEINE ERLISCHT MIT DEM 15 JULI 1920 BIS ZU DIESEM TAGE WERDEN DIE SE VON DER GEMEINDE BEIM GESETZLICHEN BARGELDA EINGELÖST NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER BÜRGERMEISTER KASSIER |
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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 collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The sheer print run — over twelve million pieces for a village — reflects not local demand but the broader practice of printing far beyond circulation needs to supply collector sets, which had become a significant revenue stream for cash-strapped municipalities by that point.
The JPR0087b designation places this within the Jaksch catalog's Biedermannsdorf grouping, suggesting at least one earlier or concurrent variant exists.