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50 Heller Zeiselmauer
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Zeiselmauer |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress notgeld on cream paper, enclosed by a decorative jagged-leaf border. At left, a large numeral '50' is set within a crosshatch guilloche vignette in a hexagonal frame with radiating foliate ornaments, 'Heller' in bold script beneath; at right, the issuing authority is arranged in three tiers above a five-line guarantee clause in German script. Three manuscript signatures appear at foot beneath the printed titles of Bürgermeister, Kassier, and Vizebürgermeister, with panel letter 'C' at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Ortsgemeinde Zeiselmauer über 50 Heller gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Zeiselmauer is a small municipality in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar economic breakdown when small-change coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. These local emergency notes were authorized under a loosely administered system that gave parish councils and market towns near-total freedom over design and denomination — which is why the graphic quality and printing methods vary so wildly across the type.
The 1920 date places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian Notgeld, by which point some issues had already crossed from practical necessity into deliberate collectibility, printed in excess and sold to dealers.