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50 Heller Klausen-Leopoldsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf (Municipality of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 117 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Hel- 50 -ler Gut-Schein der Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: Die Gemeinde Klausen Leopoldsdorf übernimmt die Haftung, diesen Gutschein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat zu diesem Zwecke eine gesondere Deckungs-Rücklage bereit. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird bestraft. LITH u DRUCK F. SEITENBERG, WIEN III. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of cream-buff paper with a faint dotted border line near the edges, consistent with the simple emergency-issue Notgeld production practice of the period. |
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Klausen-Leopoldsdorf is a small forested commune in the Vienna Woods, southwest of the capital — an unlikely place to find a currency issuer. This note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld produced after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, when chronic coin shortages forced even minor rural municipalities to print their own small-denomination scrip. The 1920 date places it in the second, more organized phase of this phenomenon, by which point the practice had acquired a semi-official tolerance from the Austrian authorities.
F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled numerous Notgeld commissions for Lower Austrian communities during this period. The two signatories — the Bürgermeister and his deputy — authenticated the issue by hand, as required.