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50 Heller Mitter-Arnsdorf
| Issuer | Municipality of Mitter-Arnsdorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a central landscape vignette in dark brown ink on buff paper, rendered in a fine line-art style and showing a riverside village with a church steeple, farm buildings, tall poplars, and rolling hills in the background, all reflected in calm water in the foreground. Denomination numerals '50' appear in the upper left and right corners within a ruled border, with the title inscription in Gothic script across the top. Decorative vertical side panels with geometric Art Nouveau lattice patterns flank the vignette, and a bold sans-serif banner at the foot reads 'GUT FÜR FÜNFZIG HELLER', flanked by the validity date '31.OKT. 1920' at lower right and 'GILTIG bis' at lower left; the printer's imprint 'EDUARD SIEGER, WIEN' appears at the extreme lower right margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in muted olive-brown on plain paper and carries a central text block within a decorative dotted-rule frame, stating the municipality's guarantee obligation and redemption conditions in German capitals. A header panel at the top bears the denomination '50' on each side flanking the inscription 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE MITTER-ARNSDORF A.D.' in bold lettering. Below the legal text, three signature lines are preceded by the printed role designations 'VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER:', 'BÜRGERMEISTER:' and '1. GESCHÄFTSS. GEM.-ART:', each bearing a handwritten cursive signature. |
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Mitter-Arnsdorf is a small locality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest parishes and market towns, it issued emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left everyday transactions impossible. The 50 Heller denomination was among the most practical for local trade, covering transactions too small for banknotes but too large for the coins that had disappeared from circulation entirely by 1920.
Eduard Sieger of Vienna was a prolific printer of municipal Notgeld during this period, handling commissions from communities that lacked any printing infrastructure of their own. The JPR0617a designation places this within the Jaksch catalog of Austrian local issues.