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50 Heller Viehdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Viehdorf (Municipality of Viehdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Light grey-blue notgeld issued in April 1920, printed in brown ink on pale paper with a serrated border. The centre carries the issuer legend in Gothic script flanked by two oval vignettes, the left showing a rural church tower amid trees and the right a second church with a steeple; the denomination numeral '50' appears at each lower corner. Below the central inscription a four-line text in Kurrent script states the municipality's liability and warns against counterfeiting. The designer credit 'Entwurfe Steffi Reineck' and printer imprint 'Druck von J. Rieler, Amstetten' appear in small type at the lower left and right margins respectively. |
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| Signature(s) | Johann Elses (Vizebürgermeister), Heinrich Jäger (Bürgermeister) and Franz Setzinger (Gemeinderat) |
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Viehdorf is a small Lower Austrian municipality near Amstetten, and this note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded the country after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left local governments scrambling to fill a coin vacuum. What lifts it slightly above the anonymous mass of 1920 Heller notes is the designer credit — Steffi Reineck is among the relatively rare named female designers in the Austrian Notgeld corpus. J. Rieler in Amstetten was a regional printer with no particular distinction, but the three-signature format — Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat member — reflects how seriously even tiny municipalities treated the formal authorization of emergency currency.