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50 Heller Vöslau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vöslau (Municipality of Vöslau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue on cream paper in a decorative Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) style, with the title legend KASSENSCHEIN DES KURORTES VÖSLAU arched across the top. Two oval landscape vignettes flank a central circular guilloche medallion enclosing a stylised butterfly motif; the left vignette shows a lakeside or bath-house scene and the right a manor or spa building amid trees. The denomination FÜNFZIG HELLER appears in large letterpress type at the lower left and right, while a detachable coupon stub at the right edge bears a tower vignette and the redemption date 31. DEZ. 1920. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre, with the designer credit ROBERT LEITNER printed below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain cream paper in a restrained Art Nouveau style, the entire face enclosed within an ornate scroll-and-foliage cartouche. A central heraldic shield vignette displays a tree with barrel beneath, flanked by foliate tendrils; the redemption text is set in two columns to either side of the shield. The designer credit ROBERT LEITNER is printed in small type at the lower centre. |
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Vöslau is a spa town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation — a problem rooted in wartime metal hoarding that the new republic had not yet resolved. These local emergency issues were a stopgap, not a monetary policy.
Robert Leitner was a local designer whose work appears across several Lower Austrian municipal issues of this period. The JPR1121IIa suffix indicates a recognized variant within the Jaksch catalog, suggesting at least one distinguishing print or paper characteristic separates it from related Vöslau emissions.