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50 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Community of Mondsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the left panel carries the large numeral '50' above the denomination 'Heller' in Gothic script, with a redemption text block below and the signature of Bürgermeister Ant. Kaltenbrunner. The right panel contains a landscape vignette rendered in a woodcut style showing a panoramic view of Mondsee with its abbey buildings, church tower, and the surrounding Alpine foothills under a cloudy sky. The entire note is enclosed within a rope-pattern border, and the caption 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' appears at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 von der Markt-Gem-Vorstehung Mondsee in gesebl. Währung eingelöst. Der Brgmstr: ANT. KALTENBRUNNER Mondsee in Oberösterr. REISENBICHLER |
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Mondsee's 50 Heller notgeld was issued during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg empire. Municipal and market-community scrip of this type was an administrative necessity — the central government simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday transactional demand, leaving local authorities to fill the gap with paper. Reisenbichler, handling both design and printing locally, was a regional producer rather than one of the Vienna houses responsible for the more elaborately engraved notgeld series.
The countersignature of Ant. Kaltenbrunner presumably represents a Mondsee municipal official authorizing the issue.