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50 Heller Götzendorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Götzendorf an der Leitha |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries a bold two-colour woodcut-style vignette of a bearded male figure in historical armour rendered in dark brown against a rust-red diagonal striped ground, enclosed within a ruled border. To the right, the issuer name 'Marktgemeinde Götzendorf' and the word 'Gutschein' are set in a heavy Gothic blackletter typeface, with the denomination numeral '50' and the word 'Heller' printed in rust-red below. A redemption text block and two manuscript facsimile signatures appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Götzendorf Gutschein 50 Heller Die laut Gemeinderatsbeschluss ausgegebenen Gutschein werden in der Zeit vom 15–31 Juli 1920 eingelöst. Vizebürgermeister Bürgermeister |
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Götzendorf an der Leitha is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the First World War when coin shortages made small-denomination exchange nearly impossible. The Marktgemeinde — a market municipality, a specific administrative designation in Austrian law — had the legal standing to issue such emergency money, though the notes were purely local instruments, valid only within the community.
Two signatories authenticate this example: the Bürgermeister and his deputy, which was the conventional arrangement for Notgeld of this type. The Vizebürgermeister signing alongside rather than below reflects the co-authorization requirement many communes adopted to prevent unilateral overissuance.