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50 Heller Lindabrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lindabrunn (Municipality of Lindabrunn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-tinted notgeld voucher with a fine guilloche underprint across the field. At upper left, a decorative ornamental cartouche encloses the denomination numeral '50', with 'HELLER' below; to the right, a woodcut-style vignette presents the local parish church amid trees and clouds. The issuer's name 'LINDABRUNN.' appears in bold letterpress at the top beneath the legend 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE', with the date 'LINDABRUNN, 1. JULI 1920' and redemption text below the vignette. Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint 'ROBERT LEITNER' at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured surface with a simple dashed rectangular border frame. The heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Lindabrunn. Fünfzig Heller.' is set in bold blackletter script, followed by a block of Gothic-type text in German explaining the purpose of the emergency issue, its non-interest-bearing character, and the legal conditions of redemption between 15 and 31 December 1920. A closing line warns that counterfeiting of the note is punishable by law. |
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Lindabrunn is a small village in Lower Austria, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued when postwar coin shortages made small change practically nonexistent. Municipalities, businesses, and even individual estates printed their own emergency fractional currency — by some estimates, over four thousand Austrian issuers produced Notgeld between 1919 and 1921.
Robert Leitner was a regional printer, not one of the major Vienna houses, which shows in the modest production values typical of rural Lower Austrian issues. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0527a1 indicates a catalogued but scarce village issue — survival rates for small-denomination rural Notgeld vary enormously depending on whether local collectors preserved them at the time.