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20 Heller Moosdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Moosdorf (Municipality of Moosdorf) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Moosdorf 20 20 Heller Nur giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Moosdorf über 20 Heller Die Gemeinde Moosdorf haftet für die Verbindlichkeit zur Einlösung der Gutscheine mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Moosdorf is a small Upper Austrian market commune, and this Heller note is precisely the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that flooded rural Austria during the First World War's coin famine. The imperial government's hoarding of copper and nickel for munitions production left village economies without small change, forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own. Moosdorf's Bürgermeister Esterbauer signed off on this issue personally — that single authorizing signature was both the legal backing and the full faith of the commune rolled into one.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this firmly in the documented Notgeld corpus, but survival rates for these low-denomination village issues are erratic at best.