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30 Heller Köstendorf
| Issuer | Municipality of Köstendorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 90 x 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a decorative scalloped border with a patterned surround, centering a vignette of a village scene with a church tower, residential buildings, and a mountainous backdrop. The denomination numeral '30' appears at upper left, with the inscription 'Heller' at upper right. Below the vignette, the text 'Gemeinde 30 Köstendorf' is rendered in ornate decorative script. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Köstendorf Dieser Gutschein wird bis zum 1. Oktober 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst u. haftet die Gemeinde für die Einlösung mit ihrem Aktiv-Vermögen. (G.-R.-B. vom 25. Mai 1920.) Seb. Fuchs Gemeindevorsteher. 30 |
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Köstendorf is a small parish commune in Salzburg, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar economic disruption when small-denomination coins vanished entirely from circulation. The 30 Heller value sits at the lower practical end of the emergency coinage substitutes produced by Salzburg-area communities in this period.
The Jaksc reference places this within the documented Austrian local issue corpus, but surviving examples from minor rural communes like Köstendorf are genuinely uncommon — print runs were small and redemption campaigns in the early 1920s removed most from circulation permanently.