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50 Heller Nussdorf a. d. Traisen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Nußdorf ob der Traisen (Municipality of Nußdorf ob der Traisen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld note in purple-violet and olive-green tones, with a central vignette of a panoramic townscape of Nußdorf ob der Traisen dominated by a tall church steeple amid rooftops and rolling hills. Ornate Gothic script lettering arcs across the upper portion of the note, flanked by large denomination numerals '50' in each corner set within decorative rosette borders. Two facsimile manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and right, attributed to the Vize-Bürgermeister and the Bürgermeister respectively, with a validity date and anti-counterfeiting warning in small letterpress text at the lower left. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Heweis and Jos. Wolfinger |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues produced in the chaotic postwar years, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities — including tiny Lower Austrian villages like Nußdorf ob der Traisen — printing their own emergency fractional currency to cover the chronic shortage of small coins. F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled numerous such commissions during this period, turning around small runs quickly for municipalities that had neither the time nor the budget for elaborate production.
The two signatories, Heweis and Wolfinger, would have been local officials — likely the Bürgermeister and a municipal council member — lending bureaucratic legitimacy to what was, legally, a highly irregular instrument.