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50 Heller Maissau
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Maissau (City of Maissau, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 March 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Wave-pattern guilloche underprint across the main field, with a central vignette of the Maissau townscape set within a laurel wreath. Denomination numerals '50' appear in hexagonal frames at left and right. A right-side stub carries the municipal coat of arms with a wreath above, the denomination '50' in a roundel, and the date of issue. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground with a decorative guilloche border panel at left bearing the denomination '50 Heller der Stadtgemeinde Maissau Niederösterreich' in Gothic script. The main field carries a four-line verse by Josef Schmid, followed by a guarantee text and three facsimile official signatures with their titles. |
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Maissau is a small market town in the Weinviertel, and this note is one of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local economies without functional small change. The Stadtgemeinde — technically a municipal authority with no banking mandate — nonetheless signed and circulated these heller notes with full legal intent, backed by nothing more than local trust and the signatures of the Bürgermeister and two council officials.
Vormündl's mayoral signature appears alongside those of the Vizebürgermeister and a Gemeinderat, an unusually full council attestation for a denomination this minor.