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30 Heller Hinzenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinzenbach (Municipality of Hinzenbach, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 85 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale yellow paper, the obverse presents an elaborate woodcut-style vignette of a medieval battle scene with armoured soldiers carrying spears and a banner at right, set against a landscape with trees and birds in flight at centre-left. The issuer name in Gothic Fraktur script occupies the upper portion, with the denomination numeral '30' set within a rectangular cartouche at upper right. A scroll at lower left bears a dedication inscription, and a facsimile mayoral signature appears at lower right within the composition. The entire design is enclosed by a scalloped decorative border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain pale yellow paper within a simple double-line rectangular frame, carrying entirely typeset text in Gothic Fraktur letterpress. The denomination and issuer are stated at the top in a hierarchical typographic arrangement, followed by a paragraph setting out the legal basis of issue and redemption terms, and a counterfeiting warning at the foot. The printer's imprint appears in a separate ruled panel along the lower margin. |
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Hinzenbach is a small parish in the Eferding district, and like hundreds of Upper Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation in the final years of the Habsburg monarchy and into the early republic. The 30 Heller denomination is slightly unusual; most municipal issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller.
Lanz of Eferding was the natural choice for any municipality in that district — a local commercial printer pressed into service for what was, functionally, a public utility. Short print runs, local distribution, rapid redemption when coinage returned. Surviving examples tend to show heavy handling.