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50 Heller St. Leonhard am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Leonhard am Walde (Municipality of Sankt Leonhard am Walde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper. The left half carries a vignette of Saint Leonard seated in monastic robes, reading, with farm animals at his feet and a village in the background, set within a decorative oak-leaf border. The right half bears the issuer text 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Leonhard am Walde N.-Oe.' with the denomination '50 Heller' in a circular cartouche at upper right, followed by the facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. A guarantee clause runs along the bottom in a framed panel. |
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| Signature(s) | Wagner Adalbert (Bürgermeister), Madersthaner Engll. (Vizebürgermeister) and Wagner Konrad (Gemeinderat) |
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Sankt Leonhard am Walde is a small Lower Austrian market commune, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues that flooded circulation after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left small communities chronically short of small change. The printer, F. Kielar of Amstetten, handled numerous local emergency issues from the surrounding Mostviertel region during this period.
Anton Rohrhofer's involvement as designer is the one detail worth pausing on — local artistic input was not universal in these issues, and attribution to a named designer is rarer than the notes themselves.