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50 Heller Mondsee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Mondsee (Market Municipality of Mondsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper with a rope-pattern guilloche border enclosing the entire note. At upper left, the large denomination numeral '50' appears above the heraldic shield of Mondsee, which bears a crescent moon over figures in a boat on water. To the right, a large dark vignette in letterpress style shows silhouetted figures standing in wind-swept surroundings, with swirling lines suggesting a moonlit night. The designer's name 'REISENBICHLER' appears below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark red-brown on pale pink paper with a matching rope-pattern guilloche border. The denomination '50 Heller' appears at upper left in large numerals and gothic lettering. Below, a block of redemption text in German script occupies the lower-left panel. To the right, a detailed landscape vignette in letterpress style presents a panoramic view of the town of Mondsee with its church, rooftops, and the Schafberg mountain rising behind under a clouded sky. The designer's name 'REISENBICHLER' is inscribed below the central vignette. |
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This is an Austrian Notgeld issue — emergency municipal currency produced during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after 1918. Mondsee, a small market town in Upper Austria on the lake of the same name, was among hundreds of communities that printed their own small-denomination notes to keep local commerce moving when the central government could not supply sufficient coinage.
The designer credit to Reisenbichler is uncommon enough to be worth noting — most Notgeld of this type was produced anonymously or through commercial printers without individual attribution. Ant. Kaltenbrunner's signature appears as the authorizing municipal official.