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10 Heller Berg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Berg im Attergau (Municipality of Berg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark violet on plain paper and laid out in a typeset format within a ruled border with decorative rosette vignettes at left and right. The upper section carries the title 'Schachingers Gasthaus in Baum.' followed by a four-line verse in German. The central block contains the legal guarantee text of the Gemeinde Berg, Bezirk Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, dated 27 June 1920, pledging redemption in legal tender within 14 days of notice. The note bears the printed signatures of the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte, a red municipality stamp at lower right, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Anton Starzinger (Bürgermeister), Anton Resch (II. Gemeinderat) and Anton Kreiß (I. Gemeinderat) |
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This is a Notgeld issue — emergency municipal scrip produced during Austria's severe post-WWI currency collapse, when coins vanished from circulation entirely and small communities were left to print their own fractional money. Berg im Attergau, a village in the Salzkammergut lake district, was hardly unique in doing so; hundreds of Austrian municipalities did the same between 1919 and 1921. What is notable is the printer: the Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden served numerous small issuers across the region, giving this Heller note a more professionally finished appearance than many comparable pieces from village-level authorities.
Three signatories — all named Anton — authenticated the issue on behalf of the Gemeinde.