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50 Heller Neuhaus
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neuhaus im Wienerwald (Municipality of Neuhaus im Wienerwald) |
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| In circulation to | 31 August 1920 |
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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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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Neuhaus. 50 HELLER 50 HELLER Die Gemeinde Neuhaus im Wienerwald haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Kassenschein bis zum 31. August 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Karner, Mayer, Fürst, Vize-Bürgermeister Bürgermeister. I. Gemeinderat Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. DRITTE AUFLAGE. |
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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.