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50 Heller St. Lorenz am Mondsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red Fraktur (blackletter) script on plain paper, with a decorative floral tendril vignette running along the left margin. A framed cartouche at the left carries the denomination '50 Heller' in red, while the main text body states the redemption guarantee by the municipality of St. Lorenz am Mondsee until 28 February 1921. Below the text appears the designation 'der Bürgermeister:' followed by a manuscript facsimile signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and carries a scenic landscape vignette occupying the left two-thirds of the note, showing the church and village of St. Lorenz am Mondsee set against the dramatic peak of the Schafberg mountain, reflected in the blue waters of the Mondsee lake. An Art Nouveau decorative border with stylised foliate scrollwork frames the right edge, within which a ruled cartouche bears the denomination '50 Heller' in bold Fraktur. The place name and province inscription appear in Fraktur lettering below the central vignette. |
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St. Lorenz am Mondsee is a small lakeside commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War. The JPR0904b designation places this within the Jaksch-catalogued Oberösterreich series — the "b" suffix typically distinguishing a second printing or color variant within the same commune's issue run.
These hyper-local Austrian Heller notes were rarely saved by outsiders, which means survivor populations skew heavily toward a handful of regional collectors who systematically worked the series decades ago.