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50 Heller Neustadtl an der Donau, Nabegg, Judenhof, Windpassing, Klein Wolfstein
| Issuer | Municipalities of Neustadtl an der Donau, Nabegg, Judenhof, Windpassing, and Klein Wolfstein (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Steßl Reinelt |
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| Obverse description | Light blue ruled underprint covers the field, with the denomination numeral '50' in large script at upper left and right flanking the word 'Gutschein' and the legend 'der Ortsgruppe der Gemeinden' in cursive lettering. A central framed vignette carries the names of the five issuing municipalities in elaborate calligraphic script, flanked by two smaller local-view vignettes: a church tower with rooftops at left and a plague column in a town square at right. Below the frame, two columns of Bürgermeister facsimile signatures identify the mayors of each municipality, with the validity clause 'Giltig bis 31 Dezember 1920' centered between them. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large vignette in blue-grey tones showing a stylised silhouette of a church or town skyline with radiating sunburst lines extending outward from the summit, printed as an underprint across the full field. Superimposed in dark red calligraphic script are the denomination '50 Gutschein 50' at the top, the word 'Heller' below, followed by a three-line guarantee text and the validity date. Designer and printer credits appear in small italic type at the lower left and right margins respectively. |
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A joint issue from five Lower Austrian municipalities — an arrangement that was administratively unusual even by the loose standards of Austrian Notgeld. Most Gemeinde-issued Heller notes came from a single issuing authority; pooling five separate village councils, each with its own signatory, onto one piece of paper suggests coordinated pressure from Amstetten district officials rather than organic local initiative. The five signatures are not ceremonial — each represents a distinct legal co-guarantor of the note's redemption.
F. Kiefer of Amstetten handled a considerable volume of regional Notgeld printing in this period, working fast and cheaply.