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50 Heller Götzendorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Götzendorf an der Leitha |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0246IIf-50 |
| Obverse description | The left portion carries a bold woodcut-style vignette of a heavily armoured medieval knight rendered in black ink over a light purple underprint in an expressionist graphic manner. To the right, the issuer name and the word 'Gutschein' are set in Gothic blackletter script, with the large denomination numeral '50' printed in purple below and 'Heller' beneath it. A lower text panel in Gothic script records the redemption period, with two facsimile handwritten signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Götzendorf Gutschein 50 Heller Die laut Gemeinderatsbeschluss ausgegebenen Gutscheine 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 like hundreds of similar communities after the First World War, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of metal coinage that followed Austria-Hungary's collapse. The 50 Heller denomination places this squarely in the most heavily used tier of Austrian municipal issues, small enough to substitute for the coins that had essentially vanished from everyday commerce by 1920.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0246IIf indicates this is one of several distinct types recorded for this municipality. Götzendorf issues are not among the more widely documented Lower Austrian series, which makes census data on surviving examples genuinely thin.