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75 Heller Dornbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dornbach (Commune of Dornbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette, printed in blue-green, presents a rural chapel with a cross-topped steeple set against a billowing cloud background, surrounded by foliage and a wayside cross in the foreground, all enclosed within an oval frame. Brown letterpress printing frames the composition with ornate scrollwork columns and foliate borders at the upper corners, with denomination numerals '75' in white within dark circular cartouches at upper left and right. The word 'HELLER' runs vertically along each side panel, while 'KASSENSCHEIN' appears on a banner below the vignette, and the issuing authority inscription is set in a ruled panel at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein wird von der Gemeinde Dornbach innerhalb 14 Tagen nach Verlautbarung in der Tagespresse in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Der Vizebürgermeister: II. Gemeinderat: I. Gemeinderat: 2. Auflage Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III. |
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Dornbach was a distinct municipality west of Vienna until its forcible incorporation into the city in 1892 — which makes the issuer designation "Gemeinde Dornbach" on a 1920 note a bureaucratic ghost, the commune having ceased to exist as an independent entity nearly three decades earlier. Whether this reflects administrative inertia, a sub-district retaining a vestigial identity within the 17th Bezirk, or simply loose nomenclature on a wartime emergency issue is worth investigating before cataloging the issuer too precisely.
Printed by F. Seitenberg of Vienna's third district, this is a Notgeld issue — small-denomination emergency scrip produced in vast quantities across Austria and Germany between 1919 and 1922 to address the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system.