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30 Heller Eisenerz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Eisenerz (Market Town of Eisenerz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries a detailed landscape vignette of the town of Eisenerz, with a church steeple, alpine peaks, and atmospheric sky rendered in fine letterpress illustration. To the right, the issuer title 'Marktgemeinde Eisenerz' appears at the top in Gothic script, beneath which the denomination 'Dreißig Heller' is set in large ornate blackletter type. Validity text and two facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower central field, with the numeral '30' in a framed box at the lower right corner, flanked by an edelweiss motif. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Eisenerz. Gutschein über Dreißig Heller weleher vom 16–30 Dez. 1920 in gesetzlicher Zahlung eingelöst wird. DER BÜRGERM. STELLV. DER BÜRGERMEISTER. 30 |
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Eisenerz is an iron-ore mining town in Styria whose entire economic identity rested on the Erzberg — the stepped open-cast mountain that still dominates the valley. This 30 Heller Notgeld was issued during the Austrian small-change crisis of 1920, when coin metal was so scarce that hundreds of municipalities printed their own emergency scrip simply to keep local commerce moving.
Theodor Huber's involvement marks this as a locally designed piece rather than one farmed out to a commercial printer. Huber produced designs for several Styrian Notgeld issues of this period.