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30 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sandl (Municipality of Sandl, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a panoramic rural view of the village of Sandl as seen from the north, with a church and farmsteads set against rolling hills, captioned 'Sandl 1760' below. A decorative ribbon cartouche at top carries the place name 'Sandl', flanked by circular medallions bearing the denomination '30' at left and 'Heller' monogram at right. Printed in red and green on cream paper. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large decorative cartouche in Gothic blackletter script containing a six-line rhyming verse in German, framed by ornamental scrollwork corner pieces in red and green. Below the cartouche, a legal text in small German script states the issuance authority, redemption date of 31 December 1920, and counterfeiting warning, with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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Sandl is a small parish commune in the Mühlviertel, a region of Upper Austria long known for its glassmaking industry. This 30 Heller Notgeld was issued during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War, when the new Republic could not produce subsidiary coinage fast enough to keep local commerce functioning. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency notes in this period, but the Mühlviertel issues were often produced with unusual care.
Kunstdruckerei Carl Jensen in Vienna handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions in 1920, and the print quality on Sandl's issues reflects that professional background rather than the crude rubber-stamp efforts of smaller communes.