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30 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aigen (Market Town of Aigen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Reverse of plain, unprinted buff card stock, largely unadorned save for faint show-through impressions of the obverse letterpress printing. A vertical row of perforation holes runs close to the left edge, consistent with counterfoil or stub separation, and a faint stamp impression is discernible at the upper left corner. |
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| Signature(s) | Fr. Pfleger (Bürgermeister) |
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Aigen im Mühlkreis issued this Notgeld note during the chaotic postwar years when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation across the former Habsburg territories. The collapse of the Austrian economy after 1918 left municipal governments scrambling to fill the void — Marktgemeinden like Aigen authorized their own emergency scrip under the informal but widespread Notgeld system, with the Bürgermeister's signature serving as the local guarantee of redemption.
The 30 Heller denomination is among the more granular values issued in this series, suggesting genuine small-change pressure rather than collector-targeted overprinting, which became endemic in Austrian Notgeld by 1920–21.