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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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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress on light blue ruled underprint. A central oval vignette enclosed within a decorative chain border presents a view of the parish church of St. Leonhard am Walde with its distinctive onion-domed tower, flanked on both sides by circular denomination panels inscribed '50 Heller'. The issuer name 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Leonhard am Walde' appears in Gothic script across the upper portion, with validity date 'Giltig bis 30. Dezemb. 1920' at lower left and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on white paper with an oak-leaf and acorn border running along the top and vertical decorative borders on either side. A left-side vignette within a rectangular frame depicts Saint Leonhard — the patron saint — seated in monastic robes with a halo, surrounded by farm animals including a cow, geese, and a pig. To the right, the issuer text 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Leonhard am Walde N.-Ö.' is set in Gothic script alongside a dotted circular denomination panel marked '50 Heller', with three manuscript signatures for the Bürgermeister, Vicebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat below. |
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Sankt Leonhard am Walde is a small Lower Austrian commune, and this 50 Heller Notgeld was issued — like thousands of similar municipal pieces across Austria — to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. What distinguishes this particular note is the local production chain: printed by F. Kielar in nearby Amstetten rather than one of the larger Vienna houses, and designed by Anton Rohrhofer, almost certainly a local figure rather than a professional commercial artist. Three signatories appear — the Bürgermeister, Vicebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat — an unusual triple-signature arrangement for a note of this denomination.