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50 Heller Ziersdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Ziersdorf (Market Town of Ziersdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Single-colour blue letterpress note with a decorative ruled border. To the left, a vignette within an oval frame shows the Rathaus (town hall) of Ziersdorf set among trees, surmounted by the municipal coat of arms flanked by wheat sheaves. To the right, the issuer's name in Gothic script occupies the upper field, below which the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is rendered in large ornamental lettering with the numeral '50' set in an oval cartouche. The validity date 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920' appears at lower left within a ruled panel, and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials are inscribed at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 Dieser Schein ist unverzinslich und wird in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. F. Berger, Horn. |
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Ziersdorf is a small market town in Lower Austria's Weinviertel, and this Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. F. Berger of Horn was a regional printer responsible for a significant number of Lower Austrian municipal issues during this period — competent work, but strictly local in distribution and ambition.
These town-level emissions were never legal tender beyond their issuing community, and most were redeemed and destroyed within a year or two of issue. Surviving examples tend to come from collector redemptions rather than actual circulation wear.