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50 Heller Vorchdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vorchdorf (Municipality of Vorchdorf) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple on light green paper, the reverse is enclosed within a plain double-line rectangular border. The central vignette presents a detailed line-art panorama of the Messenbach estate as it appeared circa 1600, with a multi-storey manor house and outbuildings set against a dramatic alpine mountain backdrop rendered in fine hatching. The caption 'Messenbach um 1600.' is inscribed below the vignette, with the printer's imprint 'SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN' in small capitals at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Messenbach um 1600. SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN |
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Vorchdorf is a small market town in Upper Austria's Salzkammergut region, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian municipal emergency issues — Notgeld — that proliferated after the collapse of the Habsburg economy following the First World War. With small coin effectively vanishing from circulation by 1920, communes down to a few hundred inhabitants were issuing their own fractional paper. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden served as the local printer for a cluster of these regional issues, giving several neighboring communities' notes a shared typographic character.