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50 Heller Dornbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dornbach (Commune of Dornbach), Lower Austria |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark crimson on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed by an ornate border of scrollwork and foliate arabesques, with the denomination numeral '50' set in solid cartouches at upper left and right and 'HELLER' lettered vertically along each lateral pillar. A central oval vignette presents a lithographic view of a rural chapel with a stone cross in the foreground, backed by a wooded hillside beneath a clouded sky. The inscription 'KASSENSCHEIN' is set below the vignette between two spiral rosettes, with the issuing authority legend 'der Gemeinde Dornbach, N.Ö.' completing the lower text field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER KASSENSCHEIN der Gemeinde Dornbach, N.Ö. |
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Dornbach was an independent commune in Lower Austria when this note was issued, though it had already been administratively absorbed into Vienna's 17th district (Hernals) in 1892. The persistence of the Gemeinde Dornbach identity on a 1920 emergency note is an administrative curiosity — the issuing authority, strictly speaking, had not existed as a separate municipality for nearly three decades.
F. Seitenberg operated from Vienna's 3rd district and printed numerous Notgeld issues for small Austrian communes during the postwar currency crisis. The 50 Heller denomination places this firmly in the small-change emergency series that proliferated after coinage all but vanished from circulation in the early 1920s.