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30 Heller Klaus
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klaus (Municipality of Klaus) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vertically oriented Notgeld note printed in teal-green and ochre-orange on pale paper. At the top, a curved banner inscribed 'GEMEINDE KLAUS' arches over a central oval cartouche bearing the numeral '30', below which 'HELLER' appears in bold letterpress. The central vignette, rendered in fine intaglio-style teal engraving, presents an oval landscape scene of a mill or industrial building nestled among forested Alpine hills with a viaduct visible in the background. The lower portion repeats the denomination '30' within a circular medallion above 'HELLER', all framed by elaborate Art Nouveau foliate and floral ornamental borders in orange. The notation '3. Auflage' (3rd printing) appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse printed in blue-violet, with a continuous wavy-line and dot border framing a central block of Gothic-script text stating the legal basis and redemption conditions of the Notgeld issue. Three manuscript facsimile signatures appear below, attributed to the Kassier (cashier), Bürgermeister (mayor), and Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter (deputy mayor). The printer's imprint 'Entwurf u. Druck v. F. Seitenberg (Inh. A.W. Müller) Wien, III.' is typeset in small roman type at the foot of the note. |
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Klaus is a small market town in Vorarlberg, and this 30 Heller Notgeld dates from the prolonged currency chaos that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War — a period when municipal governments across the former empire issued their own small-denomination paper simply because coins had vanished from circulation entirely, hoarded or melted down. Three signatories is unusual for a note of this denomination: the Kassier and both the Bürgermeister and his deputy signing jointly suggests the municipality was unusually fastidious about accountability, or simply had no established protocol and covered itself with extra authorization.
F. Seitenberg's Vienna III workshop produced a large volume of Notgeld for Austrian municipalities during this period, and the designer credit going to the firm itself rather than an individual hand is consistent with their commercial output.