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50 Heller Hinterbrühl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 July 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of the Hölderichsmühle (the birthplace of Schubert's Müller songs), captioned 'Die Geburtsstätte der Schubertʼschen Müllerlieder', surmounted by a small circular portrait medallion of Franz Schubert. A musical staff excerpt with the incipit 'Guten Morgen schöne Müllerin' runs along the lower portion of the vignette, flanked by columns of authorising text in Gothic script and denomination numerals '50' in each corner. Three manuscript facsimile signatures appear at the foot, above the titles Vize-Bürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Finanz-Referent. |
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| Reverse lettering | FESTE LIECHTENSTEIN Dieser Kassenschein wird von der Gemeinde Hinterbrühl bis 31. Juli 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Hinterbrühl, am 25. April 1920. Wehhofer, Mödling |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village south of Vienna, better known for the Seegrotte — a flooded gypsum mine repurposed by the Nazis in 1943 as an underground Heinkel He 162 jet fighter assembly plant. This 50 Heller note predates that history by two decades, issued during Austria's postwar Notgeld crisis when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency fractional currency.
Wehhofer of Mödling was a local commercial printer, not a specialist in security printing — a detail that matters, since Hinterbrühl Notgeld from this period is known to have been relatively easy to reproduce informally.