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1 Heller Grödig - Eisenwerk
| Issuer | Eisenwerk Grödig |
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| Value | 1 Heller (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey-blue paper note with a dense floral and foliate letterpress underprint covering the central field. The denomination '1 h' is printed in large bold type at centre, flanked by the underprint pattern, with the legend 'Wertmarke' at top and 'Eisenwerk Grödig' in two lines at bottom. A decorative border of small repeating square ornaments frames the note on the upper and lower edges. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse with a cream-beige fibrous paper surface showing natural texture and minor age toning, with no text or design elements. |
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Eisenwerk Grödig was an ironworks operation in the village of Grödig, just south of Salzburg, and like hundreds of Austrian industrial firms during the First World War it issued its own small-denomination emergency currency — Kriegsnotgeld — to pay workers when official coinage simply ceased to circulate. The imperial government's metal requisitions had stripped copper and nickel from everyday commerce, and 1-Heller pieces effectively vanished. Factory scrip filled the gap.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0291-01 places this firmly within the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, though survival rates for single-digit Heller industrial issues are uneven — plant closures and post-war redemptions saw most destroyed before collectors took serious notice.