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30 Heller Maria-Taferl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria Taferl (Commune of Maria Taferl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 30 Hellers (0.3) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-green Notgeld voucher divided into two panels by a dotted border, with the left panel carrying the principal design. A central oval vignette enclosed within a laurel wreath presents a detailed letterpress view of the Maria Taferl pilgrimage basilica set on a hillside, flanked by decorative ribbon cartouches; above, the legend 'Gut-Schein' is rendered in ornate Fraktur script, with 'Dreißig' and 'Heller' flanking the vignette. Two manuscript signatures appear below the vignette with titles 'Kaufmann' and 'Gastwirt', and a redemption clause in Fraktur runs along the lower margin. The right panel bears the numeral '30' at the top and a small vignette of the Madonna of Maria Taferl above a devotional inscription in Fraktur. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Holhammer (Kaufmann) and Alois Feiertag (Gastwirt) |
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Maria Taferl is a Baroque pilgrimage village in Lower Austria — population in the hundreds — and this 30 Heller note is exactly what it looks like: a local emergency issue from the postwar Notgeld wave, authorized at the commune level because small coin had essentially vanished from circulation across Austria by 1920. The signatories, a merchant (Kaufmann) and an innkeeper (Gastwirt), were almost certainly acting as guarantors or local officials of convenience rather than bankers in any formal sense.
Austrian Notgeld of this type was printed in enormous variety across thousands of communes between 1919 and 1922, often with deliberately decorative designs to attract collector interest — a secondary market that communes quietly exploited to generate revenue beyond face value redemption.