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30 Heller Artstetten
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Artstetten (Market Town of Artstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in green and brown on cream paper, with an Art Nouveau-style decorative border of stylized leaf motifs framing the entire design. Two brown vignettes flank the central text panel: at left, a view of Artstetten church with its distinctive onion domes; at right, the ornate portal gate of Artstetten Castle. The denomination '30 HELLER' is set in large numerals at centre, below the issuing authority legend, with the validity date 'NUR GILTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920' at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSEN-SCHEIN der MARKT-GEMEINDE ARTSTETTEN über 30 HELLER NUR GILTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 |
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Artstetten is best known as the burial site of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, whose assassination in Sarajevo in June 1914 triggered the chain of events leading to the First World War. This note was issued six years after that — not by any banking authority, but by the Marktgemeinde itself, a product of the acute small-change shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate postwar period.
These municipal Notgeld issues were typically printed in small runs and redeemed locally within months. Surviving examples from minor Niederösterreich communities like Artstetten are disproportionately scarce relative to the larger town issues that attracted collector attention at the time of issue.