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50 Heller Mondsee

Issuer Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Town of Mondsee)
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Reverse description Printed in dark green on pale green-tinted paper within a chain-link decorative border, the reverse is divided into two vertical panels: the left panel carries the large numeral '50' above the denomination 'Heller' in Gothic script followed by a multi-line redemption text in German and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, while the right panel presents a topographic vignette of the town of Mondsee with its abbey and lakeside buildings set against a mountainous background with billowing clouds. The inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' appears in Gothic script at lower right, with 'REISENBICHLER' below the border.
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Signature(s) Ant. Kaltenbrunner
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Mondsee is a small lakeside market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it resorted to issuing its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after 1918. These hyper-local issues were authorized under Austrian emergency provisions and typically circulated only within the issuing community, redeemable at the local Gemeindeamt.

The Reisenbichler design credit is unusual — most rural Notgeld of this type came from standardized print shops with no named designer. Whether Reisenbichler was a local artist or a regional commercial illustrator remains unconfirmed. Kaltenbrunner's signature as Bürgermeister or authorized municipal officer was the only legal validation these notes carried.

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