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50 Heller Lunz am See
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lunz am See (Municipality of Lunz am See) |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The left panel of this Notgeld Gutschein carries a central landscape vignette engraved in brown, presenting a panoramic view of the Lunzer See with a sailboat on the water, alpine mountains and a castle ruin in the background, framed by an ornate cartouche with scrollwork and flanked on both sides by large edelweiss blossoms rendered in fine line work. Denomination numerals '50' appear in boxed type at upper left and upper right, with the title 'GUTSCHEIN / FÜNFZIG HELLER' between them and the designer credit 'ENTWORFEN VON E. DIEMBERGER' above. Below the vignette, facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister, the Bürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat appear above the issuer inscription 'GEMEINDE LUNZ AM SEE'; a vertical panel to the right bears a four-line German verse with a boxed '50' alongside. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown on plain paper and enclosed within an elaborate decorative border of interlocking foliate and scrollwork ornaments with stylised floral corner pieces. A central rectangular text panel with shaped edges carries the redemption pledge and anti-counterfeiting warning in Gothic-style typeface, stating the municipality's full financial liability for redemption into legal tender and specifying the redemption window of 15 to 31 December 1920. |
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Lunz am See is a small lakeside village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during and after the First World War when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. These local issues were authorized under wartime necessity, not monetary policy, and the Gemeinde itself bore responsibility for redemption.
E. Diemberger's credit on a village Notgeld is worth noting; locally commissioned designers were common, and the JPR reference confirms this as one of several Lunz denominations in the series.