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50 Heller Desselbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Desselbrunn (Municipality of Desselbrunn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Desselbrunn 50 Heller. Gründung Desselbrunns durch Herzog Tassilo. |
| Reverse description | Plain typeset reverse within a simple ruled border, the left and right margins occupied by vertically-oriented braided or woven decorative columns enclosing boxed denomination numerals '50'. The central field carries a full block of German text in blackletter and roman type setting out the terms of issue, redemption obligations, the issue date, and an anti-counterfeiting warning, concluded by the mayor's printed signature. A small printer's mark appears at the lower right corner. |
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Austrian Notgeld of the post-WWI years was produced by the thousands of issuing authorities, but the smaller Upper Austrian municipalities — Desselbrunn among them — tend to be overlooked in favor of the more decorative urban issues. This is a purely functional emergency piece, authorized under the chaotic interregnum between the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the establishment of stable Austrian currency administration. L. Haase of Linz handled several such municipal commissions in the region, working fast and cheap.
The Bürgermeister's signature, Hüthmair, and the applied official stamp are the only authentication this note carried against counterfeiting — a low bar, but typical of the legal minimum required under the 1919–1920 Notgeld authorization framework.