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50 Heller St. Lorenz am Mondsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a scenic view of the village of St. Lorenz am Mondsee with its Baroque church towers set against a dramatic alpine peak, rendered in a fine illustrative style signed 'Alfred Gerstenbrand' at lower left. Decorative Art Nouveau vine and floral tendrils frame the right and left borders, with the denomination '50 Heller' inscribed in a ruled cartouche at upper right. The place name 'St. Lorenz am/Mondsee. Ober-Österreich.' is printed in Gothic script below the vignette, with a light green underprint across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | St. Lorenz am/Mondsee. Ober-Österreich. 50 Heller |
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Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee is a small lakeside municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of wartime coin hoarding and the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Local governments were left to fill the small-denomination vacuum themselves.
Alfred Gerstenbrand was among the regional artists commissioned for these issues, and his involvement is the kind of detail that makes Austrian Notgeld genuinely collectible as a graphic art form rather than merely a monetary curiosity. The Gruml signature identifies the Bürgermeister authorizing the issue.