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50 Heller Hausmening
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hausmening (Municipality of Hausmening) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue-grey Notgeld note with an ornate Art Nouveau-style border of interlocking geometric and foliate motifs. To the left, an oval vignette contains a profile portrait of a woman in period dress with an elaborate headdress rendered in fine letterpress. To the right, a second oval panel carries the issuing authority text and validity inscription, flanked by a central decorative cartouche with scrollwork; three facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear below. The denomination 'FÜNFZIG 50 HELLER' is set in large bold type across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG 50 HELLER NOTGELD der GEMEINDE HAUSMENING GILTIG BIS 31. DEZ. 1920 NACHAHMUNG wird gesetzl. bestraft. DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT Entwurf: Robert Schönbrunner — Druck von F. Kielar, Amstetten |
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Hausmening is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of municipal Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between roughly 1919 and 1922, filling the vacuum left by the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone system and the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage. Gemeinden of almost no economic significance became de facto issuers of emergency currency, often commissioning local printers — here F. Kielar of nearby Amstetten — rather than the larger Viennese firms.
The split designer credits are worth noting: Robert Schönbrunner handled the obverse while Hans Kozak took the reverse, an unusual division of labor for a village-level note from a regional press.