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10 Heller Zell bei Zellhof, Ludwig Altzinger
| Issuer | Ludwig Altzinger, Holzindustrieller, Zell bei Zellhof |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Issued on a thin natural wood veneer substrate in a hexagonal format, the obverse is framed by a dotted perimeter border. The central field carries a six-line letterpress text in Fraktur script, printed in dark green ink against the warm ochre tone of the wood grain, reading the issuer name, trade designation, and locality, headed by the word "Notgeld" and concluded by the anno date at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Ludwig Altzinger Holzindustrieller Zell bei Zellhof ano 1920 |
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One of the more unusual surviving examples of Austrian notgeld, this piece was issued by a timber merchant — Ludwig Altzinger, a wood industrialist — and produced from the very material his business traded in. Thin wood veneer as a payment medium is rare even within the already eccentric notgeld canon of 1920–1921, when Austrian municipalities and private firms issued emergency scrip in almost every conceivable substrate: silk, leather, aluminium foil, linen.
The choice of material here was almost certainly a practical advertisement as much as a monetary necessity. Altzinger had the wood.