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30 Heller Grödig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grödig (Municipality of Grödig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 87 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is occupied by a woodcut-style vignette in red and black, showing the Untersberg mountain rising above a forested landscape with two tall conifers flanking the scene. Below the vignette, a red banner cartouche carries the legend 'UNTERSBERGSAGEN / DIE RABEN VOM UNTERSBERG'. To the right, the denomination is presented vertically in bold letterpress type reading 'GUTSCHEIN D. GEMEINDE GRÖDIG ÜBER 30 HELLER' against a tan ground within a ruled border. |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a red and black woodcut-style vignette illustrating a scene from the Untersberg legends, with two seated figures in the foreground observing workers on ladders scaling a rocky cliff face among tall trees. A red banner below reads 'UNTERSBERGSAGEN / DIE UNTERSBERGER AN DER ARBEIT'. The lower section contains the redemption text in bold letterpress, followed by three manuscript facsimile signatures beneath the printed designations 'GEM. RAT', 'BURGERM.' and 'GEM. RAT', with the edition noted as '4. Auflage' below the outer border. |
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Grödig is a small village just south of Salzburg, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own small-denomination emergency currency — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War ended. These hyper-local issues were produced in enormous variety across Austria and Germany during this period, with individual communes essentially designing and printing their own money, sometimes through local print shops with little oversight.
The 1945 date in the print data almost certainly reflects a modern catalog registration or reprint date, not original production — the note itself belongs firmly to the 1920 Austrian Notgeld wave.