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30 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 30 Heller Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg |
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| Reverse lettering | 3. Auflage Die Gutscheine werden 4 Wochen nach Verlautbarung in gesetzl. Bargelde eingelöst — Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Der Ortsvorsteher: Breitschopf Adolf |
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Hundsberg is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 30 Heller note is part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian towns and villages between 1920 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities unable to secure adequate coin, and hundreds of municipalities — many with no prior experience issuing currency — printed their own emergency fractional notes. Hundsberg's issue was authorized under the same provincial framework that governed most Upper Austrian Notgeld, with the Bürgermeister or a designated local official signing on behalf of the Ortsgemeinde.
The single signature here, Breitschopf Adolf, almost certainly indicates a village-level official rather than a banker.