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30 Heller Seewalchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Seewalchen am Attersee (Municipality of Seewalchen am Attersee, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Woodcut-style vignette within an ornate scrollwork border, with the numeral '30' set in the upper left and right corners. The central scene depicts a standing figure in medieval dress holding a staff, overlooking a panoramic landscape with a church steeple and rolling hills in the background, rendered in fine line-engraving technique. |
| Reverse lettering | 30 30 |
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Seewalchen am Attersee was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced to print their own small-denomination emergency money — Notgeld — after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left a severe shortage of coin in circulation. The Atelier Marend-Vertes, a Viennese commercial art studio, supplied notes to multiple municipalities during this period, which accounts for a certain consistency of production quality across what were nominally very local issues.
The 30 Heller denomination sits at the upper edge of the typical Gemeinde Notgeld range, where municipal authorities were calculating how much paper they could realistically redeem once coin returned — a bet many of them lost.