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50 Heller Ottenschlag
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ottenschlag (Municipality of Ottenschlag) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 May 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note on cream paper with an ornate border enclosing the full design. The denomination numeral '50' appears in octagonal cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by heraldic shield vignettes bearing crossed halberds. A curved banner at top carries the issuer inscription, below which the value 'Fünfzig Heller' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script. At centre bottom, an oval vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Ottenschlag with a castle, church, and surrounding landscape; the validity date '1. Mai 1921' appears at lower right, and a facsimile mayoral signature is placed above a small circular municipality seal. |
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| Signature(s) | Leon Ederndorfer (Bürgermeister) and Felix Cippl |
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Ottenschlag is a small market town in Lower Austria's Waldviertel region, and this note is a product of the Notgeld emergency — the years immediately following World War One when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left Austrian municipalities scrambling to produce their own small-denomination scrip to cover the chronic shortage of coins in circulation. M. Salzer of Vienna was one of several commercial printers supplying these municipal issues on short runs, with local officials signing each note by hand to give them nominal authority.
Bürgermeister Leon Ederndorfer's signature appears alongside that of Felix Cippl — likely a municipal treasurer or council member, though his exact role is unrecorded in standard references.