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30 Heller Schlierbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schlierbach (Municipality of Schlierbach, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the obverse carries a line-engraved vignette of a saint's statue mounted on an elaborate pedestal, enclosed within a cartouche of scrollwork. To the right, a scallop-edged guilloche underprint in pale blue frames the issuing text in Gothic script, with the denomination numeral '30' repeated at all four corners in bold letterpress. Three facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower right portion of the text panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large oval vignette rendered in fine line engraving, presenting a panoramic view of Schlierbach with the monastery church and surrounding buildings set against a wooded hillside. The oval is bordered by an elaborate foliate and scroll frame, with a ribbon cartouche at the top bearing the word 'Gutschein' in Gothic script and a lower ribbon inscribed with 'Gemeinde Schlierbach'. |
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Schlierbach is a small Upper Austrian village best known for its Cistercian monastery, and this 30 Heller notgeld was issued by the municipality during the acute small-change crisis that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments across the former empire scrambling to produce their own emergency fractional currency — a situation the Austrian government tolerated rather than endorsed.
Three signatories is unusually high for a village-level notgeld of this denomination, suggesting the local council treated even this modest emission as a formal civic act requiring multiple validating authorities.