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30 Heller Baumgarten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Baumgarten bei Berg (Municipality of Baumgarten bei Berg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse centres on an agricultural vignette of a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across an open field, with rays of sunlight breaking through clouds above; the artist's signature 'Dörring' appears beneath the vignette. The denomination numeral '30' occupies oval cartouches at left and right within decorative rosette corner ornaments and foliate scroll borders. 'GUTSCHEIN' arches across the top within a scrollwork panel, with 'der Gemeinde Baumgarten' inscribed in Gothic blackletter along the lower margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Baumgartner (Bürgermeister), Andr. Soffertmüller and Fr. Winklmayr |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the immediate postwar period, issued by a small commune in Upper Austria when central currency had effectively ceased to function for everyday transactions. Baumgarten bei Berg is a genuinely minor locality — the kind of village that would not normally appear in philatelic or numismatic records at all. The Reklame Puka press in Linz was a commercial advertising and print shop, not a specialist security printer, which is entirely characteristic of notgeld production at this level.
Three signatories — the Bürgermeister plus two others — authenticated the issue, a formality meant to anchor local trust in paper that had no backing beyond communal goodwill.