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30 Heller Grödig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grödig (Municipality of Grödig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 30 Hellers (0.3) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a rectangular woodcut-style vignette printed in blue-grey and ochre illustrates the Untersberg mountain rising above a lake foreground flanked by tall conifers; a light blue panel beneath the vignette carries the series legend. To the right, bold block lettering on an ochre ground states the issuing authority and the denomination 30 HELLER in large numerals. |
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| Signature(s) | Ruttinger and Jas Pühley and Tarscher |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small communities without adequate coin for everyday transactions. Grödig, a village at the foot of the Untersberg near Salzburg, produced its own fractional scrip rather than wait for central banking infrastructure that wasn't coming anytime soon. Zaunrieth was a Salzburg printer active across multiple local Notgeld commissions in this period, handling the practical demands of municipalities with modest budgets and urgent needs.
Three signatories on a 30 Heller note is notably bureaucratic for such a small denomination — typical of how seriously parish councils took the legal formality of self-issued currency, even when the face value was negligible.