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50 Heller Hadersfeld
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hadersfeld (Municipality of Hadersfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Issued on a thin plywood sheet with a wood-grain ground, the obverse carries a central vignette of a stag standing amid stylised pine boughs and hop cones rendered in green and brown. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large grey figures within red rectangular panels at left and right, with the value legend 'HELLER' on a curved banner below the vignette. Decorative pine-cone motifs occupy each corner, and the date and mayoral signature appear in manuscript script at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, likewise printed on plywood, is dominated by a large numeral '50' at left within a ruled panel, accompanied by the vertical inscription 'HELLER'. A prominent oval cartouche at centre right contains the redemption clause and a statement that the note was produced from plywood supplied by the Ungarholz-Klosterneuburg factory. Hop-cone ornaments decorate the corners, and a print edition notation '3 Auflage' appears at the lower left, with the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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Hadersfeld is a small village on the western bank of the Danube north of Vienna, and like dozens of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued emergency Notgeld to address the catastrophic coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. Wood was an uncommon but not unheard-of substrate for Austrian local issues — plywood offered a stable surface that could be stamped or printed without the paper supply constraints that plagued smaller communities.
F. Seitenberg in Vienna handled production, which was typical for lower-Austrian village issues that lacked local printing infrastructure. Wooden pieces from this period suffer attrition differently than paper — warping and delamination are the characteristic failure modes, not foxing or tears.