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50 Heller Neuhaus

Issuer Gemeinde Neuhaus im Wienerwald (Municipality of Neuhaus im Wienerwald)
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Type Local banknote
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Obverse description Green guilloche underprint on plain paper within a rectangular border enclosing the full design. The central vignette presents a woodcut-style view of a municipal building or church set among trees, flanked on the left by the denomination panel '50 HELLER' and on the right by a repeated '50 HELLER' panel, with the issuer name divided as 'Gemeinde' at upper left and 'Neuhaus.' at upper right. Below the vignette, a three-column text block carries the obligation clause, facsimile signatures of three municipal officials with their titles, an anti-counterfeiting warning, and the edition inscription 'DRITTE AUFLAGE.'
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Signature(s) Karner (Vize-Bürgermeister) and Mayer (Bürgermeister) and Fürst (I. Gemeinderat)
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This is Notgeld — Austrian emergency municipal currency, issued by a village-level authority during the economic dislocation that followed the First World War. Neuhaus im Wienerwald is a small community in the forested hills southwest of Vienna, and like hundreds of similar parishes across Austria, it was forced to produce its own small-denomination scrip when coin shortages made everyday transactions impossible. Three signatories were required — the Bürgermeister, Vize-Bürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat — which tells you something about how seriously even tiny administrations treated the legal formality of issuing currency.

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