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110 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10+20+30+50 Heller |
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| Obverse description | Multivalue Mühlviertel Notgeld sheet issued by the Gemeinde Altaist (Upper Austria), presenting four denominations — 10, 20, 30, and 50 Heller — arranged diagonally around a central emblem within an ornamental border. The inscriptions identify the issuing municipality and designate the issue as a limited special edition of 100 pieces ("Sonderausgabe 100 St."). The overall layout combines letterpress text with decorative graphic elements typical of Austrian communal Notgeld of the early 1920s. |
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| Signature(s) | Zillingher (Bürgermeister) |
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Altaist is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 110 Heller note is precisely the kind of hyper-local emergency scrip that proliferated across Austria between 1919 and 1922 when the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left small communities without workable small change. Gemeinden issued their own Notgeld not as an act of fiscal independence but out of sheer necessity — the new Austrian crown was unstable, coin metal had been requisitioned, and nobody was making small denominations fast enough to fill the gap.
The 110 Heller denomination is slightly unusual. Most Notgeld ran in round figures; the odd value suggests the commune was targeting a specific circulation need, possibly pricing tied to local goods or transport fares.
Printed by B. Saughammer in Linz, a printer well-documented in Upper Austrian municipal scrip of this period.