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75 Heller Klausen-Leopoldsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf (Municipality of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a green letterpress vignette of a rural alpine village landscape with farmsteads set against wooded hills. The right half carries the denomination expressed in Gothic Fraktur script as 'Hel-75-ler' flanking a circular numeral medallion at top, below which the large legend 'Gut-Schein der Gemeinde Klausen-Leopoldsdorf' appears in bold blackletter type. A green underprint of the numeral '75' spans the lower central field, with two manuscript signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister above the validity date and a penalty clause in small letterpress text at lower left; the printer's imprint 'Lith. u. Druck F. Seitzberg Wien' appears along the bottom margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Schöndorfer (Vizebürgermeister) and Anton Tolkesch (Bürgermeister) |
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Klausen-Leopoldsdorf is a small forested municipality in the Wienerwald, southwest of Vienna, and this Heller note is a product of the acute coin shortage that paralyzed rural Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal governments across the former empire printing their own emergency currency — Notgeld — simply to make change for daily transactions. F. Seitzberg was a Vienna-based printer that handled a number of these small-run municipal issues during the period.
Both signatories held office simultaneously: Anton Tolkesch as Bürgermeister, Karl Schöndorfer as his deputy. The dual-signature requirement was procedural, not ceremonial.