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30 Heller Hundsberg
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg (Municipality of Hundsberg, Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Size | 76 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN über DREISSIG HELLER wofür die Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg dreißig Heller in gesetzlichem Bargelde bis 31. Dezember 1920 ersetzt. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Ortsvorsteher: ADOLF BREITSCHOPF. |
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| Signature(s) | Adolf Breitschopf (Ortsvorsteher) |
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Hundsberg is a small village in the Hausruckviertel district of Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar rural communities it issued its own Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1920. These municipal emergency notes were a local stopgap, not a banking instrument — the Ortsvorsteher effectively signed IOUs backed by nothing more than community trust and the expectation that the national coinage situation would eventually resolve itself.
Adolf Breitschopf's signature as Ortsvorsteher is the sole guarantee on the note. Hundsberg being a minor settlement, surviving examples from this issuer are genuinely uncommon.