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30 Heller Buch
| Issuer | Municipality of Buch (Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper Notgeld note printed in dark blue ink, with a central vignette of a rustic stone gateway beneath a large spreading tree, flanked by vertical decorative panels bearing stylized wheat sheaves. The denomination numeral '30' appears in circular reserves on both the left and right sides below the lateral panels, each inscribed 'Heller' beneath. The issuer name 'Buch' is set in large Gothic blackletter type along the lower margin, with 'Gutschein' and 'Gemeinde' flanking the central vignette at upper left and upper right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink paper reverse printed in dark blue ink with a simple double-line rectangular border accented by circular corner and mid-point ornaments. The heading 'GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde BUCH in Nied.-Öst.' is set in bold capitals at the top, followed by an eight-line rhyming verse in German authored by Florian Rab, below which the place and date 'Buch, im Juni 1920' appear. The names and titles of three municipal officials — Bürgermeister Johann Frühauf, Vize-Bürgermeister Anton Gassner, and Gemeinderat Josef Jungwirt — are printed in the lower portion of the note. |
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Buch is a small parish in Lower Austria — the kind of community that during the postwar Notgeld boom of 1919–1921 issued its own emergency municipal scrip simply to keep local commerce functional. The central government's inability to supply adequate small change in the chaotic aftermath of imperial dissolution left hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden effectively printing their own money. Three signatures on a village note of this denomination is unusually formal for the genre; most Notgeld of this scale carried a single municipal stamp.