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50 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark rose-red on a pale green guilloche underprint, the obverse is divided into two main zones. To the upper left, the large numeral '50' is set above the municipal coat of arms of Mondsee, which bears a heraldic shield with a boat and figures on water. To the right, a dark vignette rendered in an Expressionist woodcut style depicts two figures in a small boat beneath swirling wind and waves, evoking the lake imagery of the region. The inscription 'Mondsee in Oberösterr.' appears in Gothic script along the lower margin, with the designer's name 'REISENBICHLER' printed in small capitals at the base. |
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| Signature(s) | Ant. Kaltenbrunner |
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Mondsee is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities from 1919 onward — local governments printing emergency scrip to address the chronic small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Marktgemeinde Mondsee had neither a bank nor a mint, simply the administrative apparatus of a rural township and whatever printer it could engage.
Reisenbichler's design credit is unusual for a piece this small in scope. The Kaltenbrunner signature almost certainly belongs to the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official executing the issue under local authority.