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25 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hart (Commune of Hart) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in dark green letterpress throughout, with no pictorial vignette. The denomination numeral '25' appears in each of the three upper and three lower corners, flanked by horizontal rule lines forming border elements at top and bottom. The central text in a bold serif typeface reads 'Gutschein über 25 Heller der Ortsgemeinde Hart', with a smaller line below stating the redemption deadline and anti-counterfeiting warning, followed by the name of the Ortsvorsteher in bold capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 25 Heller der Ortsgemeinde Hart Einlösetermin: 31. Dez. 1920 — Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Der Ortsvorsteher: FRANZ ERSSL |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was a hyper-local response to the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Municipal and parish authorities across Austria issued their own small-denomination emergency notes in 1919–1921, often in themed sets designed to attract collectors even at the time — a practice that blurred the line between genuine circulating scrip and philatelic product almost from the start.
Hart's 25 Heller bears Franz Erssl's signature as the responsible local official. The Jaksch/Pick reference places it within the documented corpus, but survival rates for village-level Notgeld vary sharply depending on whether the issuing commune participated in the organized redemption drives of 1922.